Marie Vibbert
Hugo- and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 100 times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. Her 2026 release, Multitude, follows a hive mind intelligence trying to make sense of humanity. 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.
Featured Book
Multitude
We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars.
Then one day, we hear a song from far away. It could be nothing, a new dance of energies made by stars muttering to themselves… but it could be everything. We pull tight to your direction in the hope that the universe may gift us a conversation. A banquet. We are coming. For the hospice orderly with open arms, the seamstress in her alleyway shop, the lawyer angry at her neighbor’s sloppy garden. For you are many, and cannot speak as one. And yet we see you communicate without words. We see you organize and build. We see you killing us.
Meet Marie Vibbert and get a copy of their book at the 2026 Kentucky Book Festival, Saturday, November 7, 2026, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.