Author: Marie Vibbert

Marie Vibbert has sold scads of poems, stories, and comics to markets like Analog, F&SF, and Asimov’s. She’s been a lineman in women’s professional football, a medieval squire, and has had work translated into Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel about a girl gang in outer space, Galactic Hellcats was released in March 2021. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Art of Finishing: Perfectionism

Strategies for tackling one of the four basic things that cause you to stop working on your projects.

April 14, 2025

Marie Vibbert
FOR WRITERS: Thoughtful Use of Jargon and Labels in Fiction

When we use jargon, we think of it as a tool, a shorthand for larger concepts, so that we can move them around, let X stand for this equation, now we can add or subtract it. But in reality, jargon is most often used as a way of identifying in-group and out-group membership.

September 12, 2023

Marie Vibbert
For Writers – Writing Flash Fiction: Serve Neat, With a Twist

Author Marie Vibbert shares her wisdom and experience about the challenging art of writing effective flash fiction.

August 9, 2023

Reach Your Apex