Marissa Lingen

Marissa Kristine Lingen (born July 26, 1978) is an American science fiction and fantasy author who writes short stories.

Life

Lingen was born in Libertyville, Illinois, to a family of Norwegian and Swedish descent. She studied physics and mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She now lives in Minnesota.

Lingen has published more than 150 pieces of short fiction. In 1999, her story "In the Gardens and the Graves" won the Isaac Asimov Award, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, for short fiction. Her fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as in Nature, Tor, Ideomancer, Analog and Clarkesworld. Her story "The Ministry of Changes" has been translated into Italian and her stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two, Year's Best SF 15, and The Best of Jim Baen's Universe.

Lingen has a vestibular disorder that has influenced some of her stories, especially in understanding the impact of zero gravity and three-dimensional spaces.