Marie Vibbert will knit a shawl or sweater in color and size of the winning bidder's choosing. Sample shawls and sweaters knitted by Vibbert are attached to this bid item.

Besides selling seventy-odd short stories, forty-some poems and a few comics, Marie Vibbert has been a medieval (SCA) squire, ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and has played O-line and D-line for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team. She has been translated into French, Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese! Her work has been called "..the embodiment of what science fiction should be…" by The Oxford Culture Review.

Marie is also a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, SFPA. She was nominated for their Rhysling Award in 2015, 2021, and 2022 and was a finalist for this year's Nebula Award for Best Novelette.