Marie Vibbert

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Marie Vibbert

Marie Lilian Vibbert (born 1974) is an American science fiction author.

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Marie Lilian Vibbert
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Born1974 (age 5051)
East Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story author
EducationCase Western Reserve University (BS)
GenreScience fiction
Website
www.marievibbert.com
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Background

Vibbert was born in East Cleveland, Ohio in 1974, the daughter of a construction worker who was also a professional sculptor and painter.[1] She has a twin sister named Grace.

She received a bachelor's degree in Geology and English from Case Western Reserve University in 1998. She played as a lineman in professional women's football for the Cleveland Fusion team.[2] She works as a programmer at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship through University Technology.[3]

Vibbert attended the Clarion Workshop in 2013.[4] and is a member of the Cleveland-based Cajun Sushi Hamsters writing workshop,[5][6] and an organizer for the Cleveland Game Developers group.[6] She lives with her husband Brian Crick in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

She, and her twin, are both long-time active members in the Society for Creative Anachronism's Middle Kingdom where Marie Vibbert is known as Lyonnete Vibert. She researches and teaches on topics of the arts, customs and culture of the Middle Ages.

Writing

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Fiction

While she published an early short story, "Brain Trust" in the online magazine Reflection's Edge in February 2006, her significant body of short fiction started to appear after 2013. Her work has appeared in science fiction magazines including Analog Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, and Clarkesworld, and has been reprinted in several anthologies. Her work has been called "the embodiment of what science fiction should be in 2016" by The Oxford Culture Review.[7]

Her debut science fiction novel, Galactic Hellcats[8] appeared in 2021,[9] and was longlisted for the BSFA Award for 2021. Reviews of the book called it "Tongue-in-cheek humor, delightfully absurd (if sometimes over the top) action, and heartening themes of found family keep the pages turning" (Publishers Weekly)[10] and "An interplanetary biker-squad romp that’s less cheesy than the Russ Meyer–esque premise suggests" (Kirkus Reviews).[11]

A fantasy novel The Gods Awoke[12] appeared in August, 2022. She also co-authored a thriller MegaDeath with Tory Quinn,[13] appearing in 2022.

Poetry

Vibbert's poetry has appeared in multiple publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction,[14] Illumen, Star*Line,[15] Utopia Science Fiction,[16] Eye to the Telescope,[17][18] Abyss & Apex,[19] Dreams & Nightmares, Gathering Storm, and Kaleidotrope.[20] Her poems have been nominees for the Rhysling award for science fiction poetry in 2016,[21] 2021,[22] and 2022.[23]

Scholarship

Vibbert has presented scholarly research on the subjects of women's headgear of the late Middle Ages,[24][25] (within the Society for Creative Anachronism), on class issues in science fiction,[26] and on the statistical analysis of female writers of science fiction short stories.[27][28]

Awards

Bibliography

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Novels

  • Galactic Hellcats (2021)
  • The Gods Awoke (2022)
  • MegaDeath (2022), with Tory Quinn

Poetry

List of poems
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Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
“Appartment on Hessler” 2006 Deep Cleveland
"Pancho's Email" 2007 Abyss and Apex[35]
“Forearm Bones” 2008 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Online Halloween Poetry Reading[36]
“Found Poems” 2009 Death In Common: Poems From Unlikely Victims[37]
“What do you want for lunch?” 2013 Sanitarium Magazine, Issue 9
“At the Tip Top” 2013 Eye to the Telescope, Issue 9[38]
“Two Body Problem” 2013 Eye to the Telescope, Issue 9[39]
“The Mermaids of Lake Erie” 2013 The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest, Second Prize
“The Slaves in my Basement” 2014 Songs of Eretz[40]
“Shelter” 2014 Vending Machine: Poetry for Change
“An Unrequited Process Loops” 2015 Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2015. 2016 Rhysling Award Anthology.

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“How to Talk to Boys” 2016 The Ghazal Page, August 2016.
“Little Monsters” 2017 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Online Halloween Poetry Reading.
“The Magic Mirror Confesses” 2017 Illumen, Fall 2017.
“Calling it a Day” 2018 Spaceports and Spidersilk, January 2018.[41]
“To the Knight’s Lady” 2018 Eye to the Telescope, January 2018.
“Hazel” 2018 Liquid Imagination[42]
"To Current Occupant" 2018 Strange Horizons, March 2018[43]
"Spaceship Office Building" 2018 Grievous Angel, July, 2018
"The Last Typewriter" 2018 Riddled With Arrows, November 2018[44]
“We Carry” 2019 Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March 2019
“To Klaatu” 2019 Geek Out! Queer Pop Lit Art & Ideas
“My Killer Robot” 2019 Illumen, April 2019
“On the Blackrock Road” 2019 Dreams & Nightmares, May 2019
"Choose You Own Advent" 2019 Lite Lit One
"Puzzle Box" 2019 Lite Lit One
"St. Sebastian" 2019 Lite Lit One
"Life in Front of Counters" 2019 Lite Lit One
“Football on Mars” 2019 Illumen, Autumn 2019
“Unlooping, a Time Travel Rondel 2020 Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2020. 2021 Rhysling Award Anthology.
"The Hot One" 2020 Kaleidotrope, January 2020.[45]
“Homeland Offense” 2020 Dreams & Nightmares, January 2020.
“Arab Law Student Shot by Police” 2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival 2020. (Performed by Hillary Wheelock.)[46]
“Altar Stone” The Red House Anthology
“Princess Cat Robot” 2021 Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[47]
“Over the Moon” 2021 Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[48]
“Skynet Demurs” 2021 Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[49]
"Window is Born" 2021 TERSE, May 2021.[50]
“Infernocrusher” 2022 Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021.
“Dragonrider” 2022 Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021.
"Return to the Cities" 2022 The Future Fire, Issue 60.[51]
“Alternate Realities” 2022 Illumen, Winter 2022.
“Eyeliner Boy” 2022 Riddled With Arrows, February 2022.[52]
“If I Were Human” 2022 Star*Line, Volume 45, Issue 2.[53]
“Positronic Effigy” 2023 Abyss & Apex, September 2023.[54]
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