Marie Lilian Vibbert (born 1974) is an American science fiction author.
Background Vibbert was born in East Cleveland, Ohio in 1974, the daughter of a construction worker who was also a professional sculptor and painter.Lovett, Richard A. (Nov/Dec. 2017). "Biolog: Marie Vibbert," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Vol. 137, No. 11-12. 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."CWRU Alumni hit gridiron for Cleveland Fusion," The Observer,April 5, 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2022. She works as a programmer at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship through University Technology."5 questions with… Marie Vibbert, novelist and (U)Tech staff member", The Daily, CWRU, Feb. 19, 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
Vibbert attended the Clarion Workshop in 2013.Clarion Workshop, San Diego Alumni. Retrieved 18 November 2022. and is a member of the Cleveland-based Cajun Sushi Hamsters writing workshop,Johnson, Andrea (December 2, 2014). "Interview with Marie Vibbert," Apex Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022. and an organizer for the Cleveland Game Developers group.Author Bio, marievibbert.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022. 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.Shaw, William (Feb. 3, 2016). Review: ‘Best of Apex Magazine’", The Oxford Culture Review. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
Her debut science fiction novel, Galactic HellcatsVibbert, Marie (2021). Galactic Hellcats, Vernacular Books. . appeared in 2021,"Nickoloff, Annie (Mar. 9, 2021). "Cleveland author Marie Vibbert debuts first sci-fi novel ‘Galactic Hellcats’," Cleveland.com. Retrieved 18 November 2022. 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)" Galactic Hellcats", Publishers Weekly, Nov. 24, 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2022. and "An interplanetary biker-squad romp that’s less cheesy than the Russ Meyer–esque premise suggests" (Kirkus Reviews)."Galactic Hellcats", Kirkus Reviews, March 19, 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2022. A sequel, Andrei and the Hellcats,Vibbert, Marie (2025). Andrei and the Hellcats, Lethe Press. . appeared from Lethe Press in 2025.
A fantasy novel The Gods AwokeVibbert, Marie (2022). The Gods Awoke, Journey Press,. . appeared in August, 2022. She also co-authored a thriller MegaDeath with Tory Quinn,Quinn, Tory, with Vibbert, Marie, MegaDeath, Level 4 Press. appearing in 2022.
Her most recent novel, Multitude, came out from Apex Books in May, 2026."Multitude", Publishers Weekly, April 2026. Retrieved 12 April 2026."Multitude', Apex Book Company. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
Poetry Vibbert's poetry has appeared in multiple publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction,https://fromearthtothestars.com/2020/01/15/how-i-wrote-a-rondel-about-time-travel/ Illumen, Star*Line,https://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline45.2.html Utopia Science Fiction,https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/february-2021-vol-2-issue-4 Eye to the Telescope,https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/009issue.htmlhttps://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/027issue.html Abyss & Apex,https://www.abyssapexzine.com/archives/abyss-and-apex2007/panchos-email/ Dreams & Nightmares, Gathering Storm, and Kaleidotrope.https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/winter-2020/the-hot-one-by-marie-vibbert/ Her poems have been nominees for the Rhysling award for science fiction poetry in 2016,https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/16rhysling.html 2021,https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/21rhysling.html and 2022.https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/22rhysling.html
Scholarship Vibbert has presented scholarly research on the subjects of women's headgear of the late Middle Ages,Vibbert, Marie (credited as Lyonnete Vibert) (2005). "Constructing the Headdresses of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries", Known World Costume Symposium Proceedings.Vibbert, Marie (August 2006). "Headdresses of the 14th and 15th Centuries", The Compleat Anachronist, SCA monograph series No. 133. (within the Society for Creative Anachronism), on class issues in science fiction,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. and on the statistical analysis of female writers of science fiction short stories.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.Vibbert, Marie (November–December 2020). "The Women We Can See in Analog," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 140, issue 11-12 pp. 98ff.
Awards "Keep Talking" won the 2014 Apex Magazine Story of the Year.Conner, Lesley (January 21, 2015). "Apex Magazine Story of the Year 2014 Winner", Apex Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022. "The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart" placed second in the Analog Reader's Poll in 2018.2018 Analog AnLab and Asimov's Readers' Awards", May 18, 2019, Locus Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2022. "The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station" placed second in the Analog Reader's Poll in 2021."2021 Analytical Laboratory Results", Analog, May/June 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022. "We Built This City" won the Clarkesworld Reader's Poll for Best Novelette/Novella in 2022"The Best From 2022", Clarkesworld Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine, March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023. and was a finalist for the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novelette"SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists", Nebula Awards, March 7, 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023. and the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.2023 Hugo Awards, retrieved 5 August 3023.
Bibliography
Novels Galactic Hellcats (2021) The Gods Awoke (2022) MegaDeath (2022), with Tory Quinn Andrei and the Hellcats (2024) Multitude (2026)
Poetry
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected“Appartment on Hessler”2006Deep Cleveland"Pancho's Email"2007Abyss and Apex“Forearm Bones”2008Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Online Halloween Poetry Reading“Found Poems”2009Death In Common: Poems From Unlikely Victims“What do you want for lunch?”2013Sanitarium Magazine, Issue 9“At the Tip Top”2013Eye to the Telescope, Issue 9“Two Body Problem”2013Eye to the Telescope, Issue 9“The Mermaids of Lake Erie”2013The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest, Second Prize“The Slaves in my Basement”2014Songs of Eretz“Shelter”2014Vending Machine: Poetry for Change“An Unrequited Process Loops”2015Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2015.2016 Rhysling Award Anthology. The Poetry Planet podcast for Starship Sofa.“How to Talk to Boys”2016The Ghazal Page, August 2016.“Little Monsters”2017Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Online Halloween Poetry Reading.“The Magic Mirror Confesses”2017Illumen, Fall 2017.“Calling it a Day”2018Spaceports and Spidersilk, January 2018.“To the Knight’s Lady”2018Eye to the Telescope, January 2018.“Hazel”2018Liquid Imagination"To Current Occupant"2018Strange Horizons, March 2018"Spaceship Office Building"2018Grievous Angel, July, 2018"The Last Typewriter"2018Riddled With Arrows, November 2018“We Carry”2019Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March 2019“To Klaatu”2019Geek Out! Queer Pop Lit Art & Ideas“My Killer Robot”2019Illumen, April 2019“On the Blackrock Road”2019Dreams & Nightmares, May 2019"Choose You Own Advent"2019Lite Lit One"Puzzle Box"2019Lite Lit One"St. Sebastian"2019Lite Lit One"Life in Front of Counters"2019Lite Lit One“Football on Mars”2019Illumen, Autumn 2019“Unlooping, a Time Travel Rondel2020Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2020.2021 Rhysling Award Anthology."The Hot One"2020Kaleidotrope, January 2020.“Homeland Offense”2020Dreams & Nightmares, January 2020.“Arab Law Student Shot by Police”2020Cleveland Humanities Festival 2020. (Performed by Hillary Wheelock.)“Altar Stone”The Red House Anthology“Princess Cat Robot”2021Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.“Over the Moon”2021Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021.“Skynet Demurs”2021Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, February 2021."Window is Born"2021TERSE, May 2021.“Infernocrusher”2022Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021.“Dragonrider”2022Simultaneous Times Newsletter, December 2021."Return to the Cities"2022The Future Fire, Issue 60.“Alternate Realities”2022Illumen, Winter 2022. “Eyeliner Boy”2022Riddled With Arrows, February 2022.“If I Were Human”2022Star*Line, Volume 45, Issue 2.“Positronic Effigy”2023Abyss & Apex, September 2023.
References
External links Official Website
Marie Vibbert entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Goodreads author page