Marie Vibbert is a Hugo- and Nebula nominated author whose short fiction has appeared over 100 times in top magazines like NATURE, ANALOG, and CLARKESWORLD, and has been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, GALACTIC HELLCATS, was longlisted by the British Science Fiction Award, and her work has been called ""everything science fiction should be"" by the Oxford Culture Review. She is the editor of the 2026 Triangulation anthology, BAD ROMANCE. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day, she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.