Pamela Ribon was recently named one of Variety’s “10 Screenwriters to Watch.” After writing on Moana and the upcoming Smurfs: The Lost Village, she’s currently co-writing the Untitled Wreck-It Ralph Sequel. On the TV side, she developed a half-hour based on the best-selling memoir Drunk Mom, with Melanie Lynskey attached to star. She’s been in comedy rooms for network and cable shows, most notably the Emmy award-winning Samantha Who?. She was a narration consultant on the DisneyNature documentary Bears. She just launched SLAM!–an original comic book series set in the world of roller derby–to rave reviews. She penned issues of Rick and Morty for Oni Press. She is the author of four novels, and her comedic memoir Notes to Boys (and Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public), which NPR called “brain- breakingly funny,”was just released in paperback.

Ribon is responsible for such viral essays as “How I Might Have Just Become the Newest Urban Legend” and “Barbie Fucks it Up Again,” the latter of which led to #FeministHackerBarbie and the creation of Game Developer Barbie as “Career of the Year.” Ribon’s stage work has been showcased at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and she created and directed the accidental international scandal known as Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues.

A former Austinite with a BFA in Acting from the University of Texas, Ribon has been entered into the Oxford English Dictionary under “muffin top.”(That is not a joke.)