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Formal Bio

PB Rippey's work appears in many journals, including Chaparral, The Pedestal Magazine, ZYZZYVA, anderbo.com (contest honorable mention) Other Voices International, Runes, Pool, Solo 7, Mary, Slope, Phoebe, Poetry NZ, Chattahoochee Review, Santa Barbara Independent, the current issue of Askew and elsewhere. She has been a Top 25 winner and Finalist in Glimmer Train contests and is the winner of the Abroad Writers' Conferences Summer 2007 Poetry Fellowship. Her poetry chapbook, Nightmares With Moons is available from Pudding House, the most wonderful independent chapbook publisher on the planet. PB lives in the West San Fernando Valley with her husband and energetic preschooler. There, she revises her middle-grade novel, her for-adults novel and writes poems between playdates, meals and the rest of motherhood, escaping to the beach for intense tide pool exploration with her son whenever possible.

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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 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, when the future president foolishly pursued the (married) sea-nymph into a wintry ocean and promptly 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.