Marissa Lingen

Marissa Lingen (born 1978) is a prolific American short fiction writer based in Minnesota.

Marissa Kristine Lingen was born in Libertyville, Illinois, on 26 July 1978 to a family of Norwegian descent. She studied physics and mathematics and worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She lives in Minnesota.

Lingen is a prolific short-fiction writer who has been nominated for several awards and won the 1999 Isaac Asimov Award, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, for short fiction with “In the Gardens and the Graves”. She has written as Marissa K. Lingen and Marissa Kristine Lingen. Lingen has a balance disorder that has influenced a few of her stories, especially in understanding the impact of zero gravity and three-dimensional spaces. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies as well as in Nature, Tor, Ideomancer, Analog and Clarkesworld.