Steve Bramucci

After dropping out of college to hitchhike around the US in 1999, Steve Bramucci fell head over heels for the life of the vagabond. In the ensuing decade, he traveled to 35 countries, with extended stays in Germany, the Cayman Islands, Uganda, Australia and Italy. Bramucci has gone walkabout (carrying nothing more than a fishing line) with an aboriginal family in Australia, learned the art of cheetah tracking in South Africa and spent a week following Komodo Dragons in Indonesia. He has written about his adventures for a variety of travel publications including a year of dispatches for COAST Magazine. Last year, Bramucci won Trazzler's Oasis Writing contest, and his travel narratives were given awards from both the Orange County Press Club and INTravel Magazine. His story about rowing down the Mekong Delta in a traditional Vietnamese canal boat was recently published in the travel humor anthology "I Learned Kung Fu from a Bear Cub." Currently, Bramucci lives in Laguna Beach, California, where he has an artistic residency at [seven-degrees] to complete his first book.