| Marie Lilian Vibbert | |
| Birth Place: | East Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education: | Case Western Reserve University (BS) |
| Genre: | Science fiction |
Marie Lilian Vibbert (born 1974) is an American science fiction author.
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] 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.
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.
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]
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]
| width=25% | 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.The Poetry Planet podcast for Starship Sofa. | |
| “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.) | ||
| “Altar Stone” | The Red House Anthology | |||
| “Princess Cat Robot” | 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[46] | ||
| “Over the Moon” | 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[47] | ||
| “Skynet Demurs” | 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.[48] | ||
| "Window is Born" | 2021 | TERSE, May 2021.[49] | ||
| “Infernocrusher” | 2022 | Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021. | ||
| “Dragonrider” | 2022 | Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021. | ||
| "Return to the Cities" | 2022 | The Future Fire, Issue 60.[50] | ||
| “Alternate Realities” | 2022 | Illumen, Winter 2022. | ||
| “Eyeliner Boy” | 2022 | Riddled With Arrows, February 2022.[51] | ||
| “If I Were Human” | 2022 | Star*Line, Volume 45, Issue 2.[52] | ||
| “Positronic Effigy” | 2023 | Abyss & Apex, September 2023.[53] |