Meet the SIBA Staff: SP Rankin / Website Administrator

SP Rankin lives in Raleigh, NC, and can be found daydreaming unrealistically about women artists in Paris in 1923 or so, watching movies, listening to music, messing with her camera, trying to remember the song of the Northern cardinal, and restraining herself from buying more art books (unless they’re about women artists in Paris in 1923 or so). She’s pretty sure she has low-grade psychic abilities, which manifest in inexplicably thinking about an obscure actor (usually from a soap opera in the 1980s) and then seeing them shortly thereafter in a reverse mortgage commercial.

SP has worked with SIBA since 2016 in website development and administration despite majoring in Art History, 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 serves as the conference photographer. SP also works as the system administrator and developer for the RAMP seasonal catalog program, a partnership of SIBA, NAIBA, GLIBA, and CALIBA.

Before SIBA, SP 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 of the greatest sounds in the world. Her book, Common Threads: Gastonia and Gaston County Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Beers & Associates), was published in 2014.

SP is proud to support SIBA's mission and thrilled to be a part of the indie bookselling community at large.