During her childhood, Ribon's family relocated many times due to her father's career in hotel management, spending time in several cities, including Danville, Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania; East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; Bartonsville, Pennsylvania; York, Pennsylvania; Gaithersburg, Maryland; Troy, Michigan; Oakton, Virginia; Creve Coeur, Missouri, Palm Springs, California; Jackson, Mississippi; Eureka, Missouri; North Richland Hills, Texas, and Katy, Texas. It was there where Ribon's theatrical interest began, prompting her to seek a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ribon married another Television Without Pity flagship writer, Stee, in Los Angeles on December 31, 2004. The two divorced in 2009.
One of Ribon's claims to fame is her website, Pamie.com, a blog she has maintained since the 1990s. It attained a large readership, mostly because of Ribon's connection to the popular Television Without Pity site. In 2003, Ribon began using its popularity to promote library donation drives, a goal which in 2006 culminated in the Dewey Donation System, a permanent site devoted to publicizing library wish lists for interested donors.
In May 2003, Ribon read an article about the funding difficulties being experienced by the Oakland Public Library. When she found that they had resorted to putting up a wishlist on Amazon in order to get new materials, she wrote an entry asking her readers to do what they could to fill these needs. The success of this philanthropic gesture on the part of her readers led her to do the same for San Diego's public libraries the following year and for schoolchildren in India in 2005. In 2006, the Dewey Donation Drive began as its own permanent site, sponsoring libraries whose collections sustained damage during Hurricane Katrina. In 2008, the Dewey Donation System sponsored two libraries in need: The Rockhouse Foundation in Negril, Jamaica; and the Children's Institute in Los Angeles.
Going in Circles (2010) (ISBN 1416503862), novel, Downtown Press, Simon & Schuster
26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties (2007) (ISBN 044669777X), anthology, "I Can't Have Sex With You"
Why Moms Are Weird (2006) (ISBN 1-4165-0385-4), novel, Downtown Press, Simon & Schuster, optioned into a sitcom for Watson Pond Productions, 20th century Fox, and American Broadcasting Company, 2006.
Girls' Night Out (2006) (ISBN 0-373-89579-8), anthology, "What Happens Next"
Cold Feet (2005) (ISBN 1-4165-0754-X), anthology, "Sara King Goes Bad", Downtown Press, Simon & Schuster
Writing in Unreaderly Times (2005) (ISBN 0-465-07844-3), anthology, "Look The Part"
Why Girls Are Weird (2003) (ISBN 0-7434-6980-1), novel, Downtown Press, Simon & Schuster, optioned into a screenplay for Robert Cort Productions, 2003.
Letters Never Sent (2004-2005) (Official Selection for the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado)
The Anne Heche Monologues (2001-2003): Underground Los Angeles comedy show that became an international scandal [1] [2]. Ribon transformed the autobiography of Anne Heche into a parody of The Vagina Monologues.
Television Without Pity...Recapper (known as "pamie"). Get Real, Ally McBeal, Young Americans, San Francisco, Popstars, Making the Band, The Sopranos, Gilmore Girls, Queer as Folk, Boomtown, Tarzan, Wonderfalls.