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Marie Lilian Vibbert (born 1974) is an 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. 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. She works as a programmer at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship through University Technology. She lives with her husband Brian Crick in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Writing
Vibbert attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in 2013. and is a member of the Cleveland-based Cajun Sushi Hamsters writing workshop, and an organizer for the Cleveland Game Developers group.

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.

Her debut science fiction novel, Galactic Hellcats appeared in 2021, and was longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association' BSFA Award for 2021. A fantasy novel The Gods Awoke appearing in 2022. She also co-authored a thriller MegaDeath with Tory Quinn, appearing in 2022.

Poetry
Vibbert's poetry has appeared in multiple publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Illumen, Star*Line, Utopia Science Fiction, Eye to the Telecscope, Abyss & Apex, Dreams & Nightmares, Gathering Storm, and Kaleidotrope. Her poems have been nominees for the Rhysling award for science fiction poetry in 2016, 2021, and 2022.

Awards

 * "Keep Talking" won the 2014 Apex Magazine Story of the Year.
 * "The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart" placed second in the Analog Science Fiction "Analytical Laboratory" reader's poll in 2018.
 * "The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station" placed second in the Analog Science Fiction "Analytical Laboratory" reader's poll in 2021.