Gina is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer. She is the former pop music critic/popular culture writer at the St. Petersburg Times where she got to interview many famous musicians and comedians, none more fun than Tommy Lee.
Gina first saw her words in print as an 11-year-old when BMX Plus! published a poem of hers. Since then, Gina has written for many publications including Rockrgrl, Washington City Paper, St. Petersburg Times, Creative Loafing, Tampa Tribune, Tbt, Orange, Tampa Bay Illustrated, and the web sites VenusZine, PEOPLE Pets, Friends of Animals, After Ellen, Logo, Reel Affirmations (for Washington DC’s famed One In Ten film fest), the Biggest Loser Club, and Nude as the News.
Her fiction has appeared in Weekly Planet and the journals New Orleans Review and Boulevard. Gina won Boulevard’s first national Emerging Writer Award for a short story that was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
She has also been in several bands, owned a cool art gallery, and organized the Dirty Dishers, a female troupe of performers who read aloud from celebrity autobiographies. She was one of the original hosts of the mind bogglingly popular podcast “Stuck In The 80s.”
Gina currently lives with her lady friend and their cat in Washington DC. She is in the Masters of Writing program at Johns Hopkins University.
This is her Facebook page. Don’t be shy, friend her. Or join her on Twitter. You can also email her: gvivinetto@gmail.com.
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Mindy // November 11, 2008 at 5:35 pm |
I don’t think I told you,but I literally ran into Tommy Lee at LaGuardia airport….
philipb1961 // December 3, 2008 at 12:51 am |
And I saw Tommy Lee drinking in the Carousel Bar at the hotel where I stayed – Hotel Monteleone – during Jazz Fest this year.
Guy gets around!