Marie Vibbert

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

Marie Lilian Vibbert
Born1974 (age 48–49)
East Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story author
EducationCase Western Reserve University (BS)
GenreScience fiction
Website
www.marievibbert.com

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 Science Fiction Writers' 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

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 British Science Fiction Association' 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
  • "Keep Talking" won the 2014 Apex Magazine Story of the Year.[29]
  • "The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart" placed second in the Analog Science Fiction "Analytical Laboratory" reader's poll in 2018.[30]
  • "The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station" placed second in the Analog Science Fiction "Analytical Laboratory" reader's poll in 2021.[31]
  • "We Built This City" won the Clarkesworld Reader's Poll for Best Novelette/Novella in 2022[32] and was a finalist for the 2022 Nebula Award for Novelette.[33] It is currently a nominee for the 2023 Hugo Award for best novelette.[34]

Bibliography

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

Poetry
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
An unrequited process loops 2015 Vibbert, Marie (January 2015). "An unrequited process loops". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (1): 35.

References
  1. Lovett, Richard A. (Nov/Dec. 2017). "Biolog: Marie Vibbert," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Vol. 137, No. 11-12.
  2. "CWRU Alumni hit gridiron for Cleveland Fusion," The Observer,April 5, 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. "5 questions with… Marie Vibbert, novelist and (U)Tech staff member", The Daily, CWRU, Feb. 19, 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  4. Clarion Workshop, San Diego Alumni. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  5. Johnson, Andrea (December 2, 2014). "Interview with Marie Vibbert," Apex Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. Author Bio, marievibbert.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  7. Shaw, William (Feb. 3, 2016). Review: ‘Best of Apex Magazine’", The Oxford Culture Review. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  8. Vibbert, Marie (2021). Galactic Hellcats, Vernacular Books. ISBN 978-1-952283-07-9.
  9. "Nickoloff, Annie (Mar. 9, 2021). "Cleveland author Marie Vibbert debuts first sci-fi novel ‘Galactic Hellcats’," Cleveland.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  10. "Galactic Hellcats", Publishers Weekly, Nov. 24, 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  11. "Galactic Hellcats", Kirkus Reviews, March 19, 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  12. Vibbert, Marie (2022). The Gods Awoke, Journey Press,. ISBN 978-1-951320-22-5.
  13. Quinn, Tory, with Vibbert, Marie, MegaDeath, Level 4 Press. ISBN 978-1-64630-066-2
  14. https://fromearthtothestars.com/2020/01/15/how-i-wrote-a-rondel-about-time-travel/
  15. https://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline45.2.html
  16. https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/february-2021-vol-2-issue-4
  17. https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/009issue.html
  18. https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/027issue.html
  19. https://www.abyssapexzine.com/archives/abyss-and-apex2007/panchos-email/
  20. https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/winter-2020/the-hot-one-by-marie-vibbert/
  21. https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/16rhysling.html
  22. https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/21rhysling.html
  23. https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/22rhysling.html
  24. Vibbert, Marie (credited as Lyonnete Vibert) (2005). "Constructing the Headdresses of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries", Known World Costume Symposium Proceedings.
  25. Vibbert, Marie (August 2006). "Headdresses of the 14th and 15th Centuries", The Compleat Anachronist, SCA monograph series No. 133.
  26. Vibbert, Marie (March 30, 2022). "Jobs and Class of Main Characters in Science Fiction," BSFA Vector, British Science Fiction Association, Issue 294. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  27. Vibbert, Marie, “Visible Women in Astounding and Analog,” presented at An Astounding 90 Years of Analog Science Fiction and Fact: The Fourth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, December 12, 2019. Video of the presentation available at File770. Retrieved 20 Nov. 2022.
  28. Vibbert, Marie (November–December 2020). "The Women We Can See in Analog," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 140, issue 11-12 pp. 98ff.
  29. Conner, Lesley (January 21, 2015). "Apex Magazine Story of the Year 2014 Winner", Apex Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  30. 2018 Analog AnLab and Asimov's Readers' Awards", May 18, 2019, Locus Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  31. "2021 Analytical Laboratory Results", Analog, May/June 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  32. "The Best From 2022", Clarkesworld Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine, March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  33. "SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists", Nebula Awards, March 7, 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  34. 2023 Hugo Awards, retrieved 5 August 3023.
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