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Formal Bio
PB Rippey's work has appeared in The
Pedestal, ZYZZYVA, Other Voices
International, Runes, Pool, anderbo.com, Solo 7,
Mary, Slope, California Quarterly, Phoebe, Poetry NZ, Chattahoochee
Review, Santa Barbara Independent
and other journals. She was a
Top 25
finalist in a Glimmer Train Poetry Open
and a finalist in '05, '06 and '07 Glimmer Train fiction
contests. She is the winner of the Abroad
Writers' Conferences Summer 2007 Poetry Fellowship. Currently
completing a full
length collection of poetry and a novel, she lives in North Hollywood
and escapes to Venice Beach for weekly poetry workshops conducted by
the Hoir Poets. Her first poetry chapbook, Nightmares
With Moons is available from Pudding House, the most
wonderful independent chapbook publisher on the planet.
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Informal Bio
These shoes are killing me.
RAVINGS OF A SLEEPLESS NEW MOTHER
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The Glib Notes:
A seventh generation
Californian, PB Rippey's ancestors helped design and engineer the
Disneyland-esque curls and lethal twists of the Pasadena Freeway, owned
valuable downtown Los Angeles real estate and lost everything via
gambling, bar brawls and the railroads (somehow). One of her great
uncles was shot and killed by his rival after winning a Los Angeles
City Schools Superintendent seat (early 'gone postal' episode). Her
grandmother has a local school library named after her. Her great aunt
saved Ronald Reagan from drowning in Avalon Harbor, Catalina Island,
long, long ago, after the future president pursued the (married)
sea-nymph into a wintry ocean and went into hypothermic shock. PB's
great-cousin, great aunt and grandmother all appeared as extras in the
original King Kong. PB enjoys
looking at photos of her relatives drinking in Musso & Frank,
Hollywood. Everyone wears hats and no one is smiling. Born in Pasadena,
PB grew up in Santa Barbara, then Oxford, England, then back to Santa
Barbara, her true hometown.
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