Abby Ripley

Abby Ripley is a seventy-eight-year-old and has had a very rich and varied life. She grew up on a ranch on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and has spent time as a Peace Corps volunteer, a travel agent, a life insurance field agent, an editor, a fine art photographer and exhibitor, a painter, and now a writer/poet. She crusades on behalf of African people who suffer from tungiasis. She has been named a poetry finalist three successive times by Adelaide Literary Magazine.