Bio

I’m a genre jumper: poetry, fiction, and middle-grade children’s fiction (contemporary fantasy/adventure).

My adult and middle-grade fiction has longisted for 2024 and 2025 Mslexia contests. My middle-grade fiction regularly places in SCBWI Sue Alexander Grant competitions. My current work-in-progress longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize. And my middle-grade novel The Sea Monster’s Heart longlisted for the 2026 Write Mentor Novel and Picture Book Awards. One of these days I’ll graduate to a short list. I’ve attended Bread Loaf, been a Rona Jaffe Award Semi-Finalist, and the recipient of an Abroad Writers’ Conferences poetry fellowship.

My adult writing credits include, ZYZZYVA, Crab Creek Review, Phoebe, Santa Barbara Independent, The Pedestal, Chattahoochee Review, Askew Poetry Journal. I’m the author of two poetry chapbooks, Valley Meditation (Finishing Line Press) and Nightmares with Moons (Pudding House Press).

I’m currently enrolled in Bath Spa University’s MA Writing for Young People.

A 7th generation Californian, I live in Valencia, CA with my husband, teen and a mini-zoo of rescued pets. The beach is my happy place, however living in Valencia has taught me that mountains, like the ocean, fix everything.

Instagram, Threads, Bluesky: @pbrippey1