Marissa Lingen


Marissa Kristine Lingen is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for her 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 is a prolific author, having 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. Lingen has a vestibular disorder that has influenced some of her stories, especially in understanding the impact of zero gravity and three-dimensional spaces. Her fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as in Nature, Tor, Ideomancer, Analog and Clarkesworld.

Collections

Carter Hall Stories