Meet Abigail Shipley

Abigail Shipley is a member of Sigma Tau Delta and serves as the Eastern Region Student Representative. She attends Clarion University where she is a senior Secondary English Education major with a minor in Literature. Abigail also is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and her university’s English Club. She enjoys reading, camping, hiking, kayaking, and writing and one day hopes to travel the world while writing about her experiences.

1. My favorite movie is Dirty Dancing.
   
2. I never leave the house without a water bottle.
3. If I had to eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be black bean burgers.
4. Growing up, I was sure I would be a teacher.
5. I know every word to the song “Life Changes,” by Thomas Rhett.
6. The best gift I’ve ever received was a world map.
7. My nickname in high school was Ship.
8. If you find me in the kitchen, I’m typically whipping up Spaghetti.
9. I’m more of a writer.
10. The best paper title I ever created was “The Night Before.. You Waste Your Money” (it was a movie review for The Night Before).
11. The literary place I’d most like to visit is Hobbiton.
12. My dream job is travel blogger.
13. An author I truly admire is Susan Beth Pfeffer.
14. My go-to children’s book is The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.
15. The destination at the top of my travel bucket list is Greece.
16. My favorite part of being an English Major is all of the literature courses I get to take.
17. The last book I read was Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
    
18. My favorite book is When We Met.
19. My favorite bookstore is thriftbooks.com.
20. In 10 years, I’m betting that the English major will be the future.
21. My first job was as a hostess at a diner.
22. The last book I bought was The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne and I have read it.
23. The celebrity I’d most like to spend a day with is Chrissy Teigen.
24. If I could move anywhere in the world, I’d live in Moab, UT.
25. I’m a Muggle!