Ripley is a multi-disciplinary artist and storyteller originally hailing from Chicago, USA and currently living in Tasmania. She is a poet and performance artist who uses her creative work to peer into and pull apart themes of nature, politics, and what it means to be true, in an age where language can be interpreted in so many different ways. She is passionate about poetry’s ability to drive at the question of truth and the underlying truths of human experience in new and seemingly ineffable ways. Her poems are her own attempt to better understand her personal story and patterns and through them to better understand what it truly means to be a human, together with you.