Vito Taormina

Vito Taormina is a Palermo-born journalist. His first newsroom? He didn’t work there. He just sat—maybe five, maybe six years old—watching his father, also a journalist, scribble edits and yell headlines across the smoke-filled floor of Il Giornale di Sicilia. The printing presses roared. The paper smelled like metal and heat. He never forgot it.

He moved to New York as a reporter for Il Progresso, and he later edited for America Oggi. Wrote for Il Giornale di Sicilia, the news agency Italpress, and the weekly Economy.

For Panorama, Italy’s top newsmagazine, he covered Mexican cartels up close. Reported from Haiti during the unrest—burned cars, shot curfews, neighborhoods shutting down. Stories that didn’t stay on the page.

He’s interviewed Robert Redford. Patricia Cornwell. Reviewed books like A Terrible Love of War by James Hillman—philosophy that doesn’t flinch. In 2006, he founded the bilingual paper Il Sole d’Italia in Mexico. In 2010, he was awarded the Premio Italia–México.

He’s also a martial artist, fitness coach, and believer in mens sana in corpore sano—a sound mind in a trained body. That shows up in how he writes: stripped, focused, alert. He’s drawn to nature, metaphysics, and old truths.

He’s now writing a novel. YA voice. Glitchy, sensory, and cracked open.