Tiprin was born into a hybrid Euro-American family in Southern California and raised on an urban ranch, attended prep school punctuated by summers in France.  Graduating at 16, she studied Women's Studies and Fine Art at three different community colleges before graduating with honors in 2006 from USC with a Bachelors Degree in Studio Art.

Along the way, she has held various colorful jobs ranging from liquor store delivery girl, substitute teacher, corporate web advertising guru, and assistant to over half a dozen artists and designers including Andrea Zittel. She  has written essays and a screenplay, bought, restored and sold four houses, and started a baby blanket business called American Blanket Company.

In the mid 1990s Tiprin moved to New York City to pursue acting.  While living on the Lower East Side she performed in independent films that were shown in festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York and at Sundance. She also performed in a play directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and became a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.

Tiprin's creative work has included oil paintings shown at the David Lawrence gallery, dozens of enormous patchwork and painted quilts, needlepoint tapestries, drawings, crocheted everythings, sculptures, etchings and linoleum prints. She is a self-taught embroiderer with extensive knowledge of at least one hundred obscure stitches and techniques.  Her sixty smocks are examples of many of her favorite techniques.

After 12 years of marriage,  and parenting three children, Orion, Asher and Elkin, Tiprin is currently playing a lot of classical piano while in the midst of moving again.