SP Rankin

SP Rankin has worked with SIBA since 2016 in website development and administration, despite majoring in Art History and earning an MFA in Creative Writing and not knowing what a spreadsheet was until she was 40. She does the same for the annual New Voices New Rooms conference, including the NVNR website and attendee app and as the conference photographer. SP also works as the system administrator and developer for the Regional Association Marketing and Promotion seasonal catalog program, a partnership of SIBA, the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, and the California Alliance of Independent Booksellers. Before joining the SIBA staff, she worked in communications, graphic design and production (some of it pre-computer), as a typesetter, and in a bookstore with creaky wooden floors which to her is one the greatest sounds in the world. Her book, Common Threads: Gastonia and Gaston County Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Beers & Associates) was published in 2014.