Maggs Vibo

Margaret Viboolsittiseri (Maggs Vibo) is an American author, scholar, veteran, poet and artist enchanted with folklore studies lurking in the fringes. The books she's contributed to are published by micro presses, independent bookshops, and sold worldwide at bookstores like: Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Waterstones. When she isn't creating art, she draws inspiration from the Hawaiian island of O'ahu where she works as a Military Education Coordinator. Her debut solo book Ashes to Ashes is available from Paper View Books (2022) and you can study some of her pieces archived online from galleries, musems, and exhibitions. Past art projects were in the the 95th Annual Juried Exhibition at Honolulu Printmakers, the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, DC., an art show at L'Air Arts in Atelier 11 at Cité Falguière, Paris, FR, and an artist showcase at The Library of Congress, in Washington, DC. Her current works are on display at Dulles International Art Gallery with the artist collective, UnitingUS.org. Support for anthology contributions generously provided by the National Poetry Library, Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, the Scottish Public Library, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Poetry Archive, the New York Public Library, and IAMB Poetry.

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
​2023 | Seeing in Tongues, anthology, layout by James Knight, published by Steel Incisors Press, London, UK
2023 | A Military Writers Anthology: Things We Carry Still: Poems & Micro-Stories about Military Stuff We Loved, anthology, foreword by Vicki Hudson, edited by Lisa Stice and Randy Brown, published by Middle West Press, Johnston, IA
2023 | Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art and Music Issue 8: Inspire, edited by David O'Nan, published by Fevers of the Mind Press, Henderson, KY
2023 | Maintenant 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, anthology, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, published by Three Rooms Press, NYC, NY
2023 | On the Highway With Many Miles ... To Go! Poetry & Art: Inspired by Jack Kerouac, Townes Van Zandt, Miles Davis & many more, anthology, edited by David O'Nan, illustrated by Giuseppina Brandi, published by Fevers of the Mind Press, Henderson, KY
2022 | Ashes to Ashes, debut, layout by Sal Nunkochov, published by Paper View Books, Lisbon, PRT
2022 | Cutbow Quarterly, Issue 2, anthology, layout by Arden Hunter, published by Cutbow Quarterly, Jakarta, IND
​2022 | Handwritten & Co., Issue 2, anthology, edited by Ali Nasir, published by Handwritten and Co., ​Lahore, PAK
​2022 | Pandemic Love and other Affinities, anthology, edited by M.J. Saucer, R.F. Kenter, et. al., published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2022 | PLU, Issue 9, anthology, published by Paris Lit Up, Paris, FR *Sold Out
2022 | Bare Bones, anthology, edited by David O'Nan, published by Fevers of the Mind, Henderson, KY
​2022 | The Book of Penteract, anthology, edited by Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri, published by Penteract Press, Oswestry, UK
2022 | 2022 Annual, anthology, edited by Dan Power, published by Trickhouse Press, Dundee, SCT
2021 | Fevers of the Mind: Overcome, anthology, published by Fevers of the Mind Press, Henderson, KY
2021 | Aww-Struck: Poetic and Critical Responses Themed Around Cuteness, anthology, edited by Dr. Isabel Galleymore, Caroline Harris, Dr. Astra Papachristodoulou, published by Poem Atlas, UK
2021 | Afterwords: I  Am Here, anthology, published by Veterans Writing Workshop, Fordham's Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY
2021 | Handwritten & Co., anthology, edited by Ali Nasier, published by Handwritten & Co., Lahore, PAK *Sold Out
2021 | The Mouth of a Lion: Visual Poetry from the End of the World, anthology, edited by James Knight, published by Steel Incisors Press, UK
2021 | Fevers of the Mind Presents The Poets of 2020, anthology, edited by David O'Nan published by Fevers of the Mind Press, Henderson, KY
​2017 | O-Dark-Thirty A Literary Journal Anthology 2012-2017, anthology, published by the Veterans Writing Project
2016 | O-Dark-Thirty A Literary Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, anthology, published by the Veterans Writing Project
2016 | O-Dark-Thirty A Literary Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, anthology, published by the Veterans Writing Project
2005 | Chrysalis, anthology, published by El Paso Community College, TX *Out of Print

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

2023 | Flovel 23, Edited by Amanda Earl, Flash-A-Ganza, published by angelhousepress, Ottawa, CAN
​2022 | Cassandra/Chorale – A Subterranean Chatter Project, poetry film: WordFloe, edited by Robert Frede Kenter and Moira J Saucer, published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2022 | Cutbow Quarterly Issue 2, edited by Hunter Arden, published by Cutbow Quarterly
2022 | Once Upon a Blank Slate: a Flovel 22, (featured writer with Gary Barwin, Janis Butler Holm, Ariel Dawn, AJ Dolman, Amanda Earl, Angela Hibbs, Ellie Klaus, Jérôme Mélançon, Mado Reznik, JP Seabright, Robin Sinclair, Linda Trott Dickman, Katy Wimhurst, Terri Witek), Edited by Amanda Earl, Flash-A-Ganza 2022, published by angelhousepress, Ottawa, CAN
​2022 | Cassandra/Chorale – A Subterranean Chatter Project, poetry film: WordFloe, edited by Robert Frede Kenter, Moira J. Saucer, Catrice Greer, M.S. Evans, published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2022 | ​Geographies Project, poetry film: Broken Bits, archived by Robert Frede Kenter (YouTube), published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON 
2022 | Work and the Anthropocene: An Ice Floe Project, edited by Robert Frede Kenter, published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2022 | Dispatches from the Pandemic: 25 Seconds with Covid, edited by Robert Frede Kenter, published by IceFloe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2022 | Beir Bua, curated by Michelle Moloney King, published online by Beir Bua Journal (defunct), South Tipperary, Ireland, UK
​2022 | WOMAN | ROBOT | DIALOGUES, The Tickle art zine, @inwarhol teia.art/thetickle, edited by Willy Guys and Joanne Rush
​2021 | Experiment-O, Issue 14, edited by Amanda Earl, published by AngelHousePress, Ottawa, CAN
2021 | Ekphrastic Challenges, layout by Paul Brookes, published by The Wombwell Rainbow, Wombwell, SCT
2021 | 2 Poems, layout by Russell Bennetts, published by Berfrois: Literature Ideas Tea (defunct), London, UK
2021 | Pink, edited by Russell Bennetts, published by The Queen Mob's Tea House (defunct), London, UK
2021 | Traveling Stanzas: Dear Vaccine and Some Days, published by Kent State University, Kent, OH
2021 Issue 2, edited by E.P. Jenkins, published by Coven Poetry: An online poetry and art journal, London, UK
2021 | Pandemic Dispatches, edited by Robert Frede Kenter, published by Ice Floe Press,  Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2021 | Featured Artist: Visual Poetry, edited by David O'Nan, published by Fevers of the Mind Press, Henderson, KY
​2020 | ‘My teeth don’t chew on shrapnel’: an anthology of poetry by military veterans, edited by Dr. Niall Munro, published by Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
2020 | Mother / Service / Voice: a New Works Series, layout by Robert Frede Kenter, published by Ice Floe Press, Toronto, ON and Dothan, AL
2020 | Through the Eyes of Nature: Nature Inspired Poetry, Flash Fiction & Photography, published by Tiny Seed Literary Journal
2020 | Remembrance 2020: Special Edition, published by The Rainbow Poems
2020 | Poetry Feature, edited by David Capener, published by The Babel Tower Notice Board (defunct)
2020 | Distanced 3.0 A Covid-19 Project: Prose | Poetry | Visual Art and Hybrid, edited by Aishwarya Javalgekar and Ayşe Lara Yildirim, published by ang(st) the feminist body zine
​2016 | Matthew Replies, layout by Ron Capps, published by The Report, hosted by The VWP

NFT PUBLICATIONS
2022 | WOMAN | ROBOT | DIALOGUES, playwriter, The Tickle art zine, @inwarhol teia.art/thetickle, edited by Willy Guys and Joanne Rush

ART EXHIBITIONS
2022 | L’AIR Arts Exhibition (artist), curated by Ella Bartlett, hosted by Atelier 11, Cité Falguière, Paris, FR
2022 | Veteran's Vernacular-Dulles International Airport (visual poet), curated by AnnMarie Halterman, Uniting US, Dulles, VA
2022 | Art ReHab (visual poet), curated by AnnMarie Halterman, The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Washington, DC
2022 | Art by Veterans, curated by Brendan Smith, hosted by The Galleries at Takoma Park, Takoma Park Community Center, Takoma, MD
2021 | From Conflict to Creativity: Transitions Exhibition, curated by Phil Hutinet, AnnMarie Halterman, and Terence Nicholson at Honfleur Gallery, Historic Anacostia, Washington, DC
2021 | Art Exhibition at The Galleries, Takoma Park Art Exhibition, Takoma, MD
2021 | Centennial Art Tribute for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, WIMSA, Washington, DC
2021 | Art Exhibition, Hill Center Old Navy Hospital, Washington, DC
2021 | Women Veteran Artists Art Show, curated by Uniting US and hosted by Dulles IAD, Washington, DC
2021 | 9/11 Art Exhibition, National 9/11 Challenge America poetry finalist showcase, curated by the National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2021 | 'Summer with the Arts', curated by Annette Polan and AnnMarie Halterman at Women's Military Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
2021 | Quarantine Creations, curated by Dr. Baxter Perkinson and hosted by the Perkinson Center for Arts and Education, VA
2021 | Aww-Struck, curated by Astra Papachristodoulou of Poem Atlas, UK
​2020 | Escapisms, curated by Astra Papachristodoulou of Poem Atlas, UK
​2015 | 34th Annual Gallery Showing, curated by Honolulu Hale, HI

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2022 | 'From Conflict to Harmony Through Creativity: Presenting PTSD Through the Arts and Facing Military Sexual Trauma' (guest artist), curated by AnnMarie Halterman of Uniting US, hosted by Veterans History Project, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
​​2021 | Spectrum of the Arts Program panelist, 18th Annual Healing Arts seminar moderated by AnnMarie Halterman of Uniting US and hosted by Walter Reed Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), Bethesda, MD
​2021 | War Poetry Collection, (performer) 'From Conflict to Creativity' Veterans Day Celebration, hosted by Anacostia Arts Center for Veterans Day Commemoration, Anacostia, DC
2021 | Artist Talk (speaker), 'Summer with the Arts' presented by AnnMarie Halterman, Director for Uniting US and hosted by the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
2021 | Creative Storytelling Class/Workshop Panelist, Museum of Us: Cabinet of Curiosities, curated by Jorge Lucero, hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, promoted by BBC Newsday, BBC World Service
​2020 | Army@theVirtual Fringe, Week 3: Poetry and Spoken Word Night (featured poet), hosted by Tim Marriott of Shell Shock Media, Edinburgh, UK (online)
2019 | Grand Reopening (NPS rep), hosted by the US Army Women's Museum, Fort Gregg-Adams, VA
​2017 | Veterans Day Readings (speaker), moderated by Ron Capps, Organized by The Veterans Writing Project, hosted by the Writer’s Center, DC

LIVE ART DEMONSTRATIONS
2022 | Veteran Artist Showcase Presents: 'From Conflict to Harmony Through Creativity: Presenting PTSD Through the Arts and Facing Military Sexual Trauma' (guest artist), curated by AnnMarie Halterman of Uniting US, hosted by Veterans History Project, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

CONVENTIONS AND SEMINARS
2021 | Attendee and artist, Cute Studies, hosted by Caroline Harris, Royal Holloway University, UK
2021 | Women Veteran Authors Program (panelist), hosted by the Center for New American Security, Military Veterans and Society Program as part of the Elevating Diverse Voices Initiative, DC
​​2020 | Rural Gothic 2: Women in Folk Horror (presenter), hosted by The Folklore Podcast, curated by Room 207 Press, UK
​2018 | Women Warriors Throughout the Ages: A Women’s History Month Seminar (moderator), hosted by the Prince George County Regional Heritage Center, Prince George, VA

PODCASTS
2023 | Women of the Military Podcast interviewee, episode released in 2024, hosted and produced by Amanda Huffman, promoted, produced, and archived by Airman to Mom Podcast
2023 | Episode 123, Poetry and Tea with Maggs Vibo's Poetry (featured poet), hosted by Megan Fackenthal and Shosh Mitzman, presented on Apartment 29A Podcast
2023 | Social Justice Art (forthcoming Season 4 (guest speaker with Artist Alicia Christie), hosted by Lauren Korshak, presented by Spreaker, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, and JioSaavn, archived online by Leave No Veteran Behind: Veterans Health Equity Podcast, Washington, DC
​2022 | 3 Poetry pieces, Wave 11 (poetry presenter), presented by Mark Antony Owen, published by IAMB Poetry, Alton, England, UK
2022 | Using Arts to Heal (guest), hosted by Lauren Korshak: transcripts (pdf), presented by Spreaker, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, and JioSaavn, archived online by Leave No Veteran Behind: Veterans Health Equity Podcast, Washington, DC
2022 | Eat the Storms Poetry Podcast (reader for episode 5 season 4), produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly, Dublin, Ireland, UK
2021 | CNAS Virtual Panel Discussion with Women Veteran Authors (Author/Speaker) moderated by Adjunct Senior Fellow Jeannette Gaudry Haynie, hosted by Nathalie Grogan, and produced by the Center for New American Security, Washington, DC
​​2021 | Fresh Winter Greens: An EcoPoetry Night (online open mic reader), hosted by Poets for the Planet, online archive
​2020 | Now Exhibition (reader), presented by The Poetry Archive, online archive

RADIO
2020 | Totally Connected, interviewee, Hosted by Jo Thoenes, produced by British Forces Broadcast Service Radio HQ (BFBS-The Forces Station), UK

PHOTOGRAPHY
2023 | Poetry Challenges, photographer, published by the Wombwell Rainbow, Wombwell, SCO
​2021 | Celebrate, photographer, project by Queer Your Pride Quilt, hosted by Breakthrough US
2021 | The Famous Poetry Outlaws are Painting Walls and Whispers, cover photographer, written by David O'Nan, published by FOTM, Henderson, KY
2021 | Lone Road on the Island of Moloka'I, photographer, Fevers of the Mind: Overcome, Issue 5, Fevers of the Mind Poetry Press
2021 | Poetry Cauldron, photographer, published by E.P. Jenkins, published by Coven Poetry Journal, Issue 2 (pgs. 82-85)
​​2010 | First-Person Images, photographer, curated by Richard Lang, hosted by Headlessway.org, UK
2010 | First-Person Images, photographer, written by Jose LeRoy, published by Headlessway.org, FR

INTERVIEWS
2023 | Meet Maggs Vibo (interviewee), edited by Jennifer Salazar, published by Canvas Rebel 
2021 | The Atrium Galleries (interviewee), curated by Arts Coordinator Brendan Smith of Takoma Park Community Center
2021 | Q9 with Maggs Vibo (interviewee), Fevers of the Mind Poetry Blog by David O'Nan
2021 | TPQ5: Maggs Vibo (interviewee), published by The Poetry Question
2021 | Inspire Your Heart with Art Day (interviewee), published by Bookclub
​2020 | Interview with Maggs Vibo Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre's Veterans' Poetry Workshop Project (interviewee), hosted by Niall Munro of Oxford Brookes University​
2020 | How Poetry is Helping to Explore What it is Really Like To Be A Veteran: Changing the way veterans are perceived, one poem at a time (featured), written by Laura Skitt, published by Forces.Net

FESTIVALS
​​2021 | Summer with the Arts (Uniting US artist), curated by the Women in Military Service for America, Washington, DC
2020 | Army@theVirtual Fringe, Week 3: Poetry and Spoken Word Night (feature), hosted by Tim Marriott of Shell Shock Media, UK

BOOK FAIRS
2023 | Contributors to The Book of Penteract, organized by Anthony Etherin and Clara Etherin, editors, Penteract Press, Small Publishers Press, London, UK​
2023 | Contributors to Maintenant 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, organized by Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes, editors, Three Rooms Press, Booth 619, Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2023 | Writer of Ashes to Ashes, organizer Sal Nunkachov, editor, Paper View Books, Raia Small Press Book Fair, Santa Clara Market, Lisbon, PRT
2022 | Writer of Ashes of Ashes, organizer Sal Nunkachov, editor, Paper View Book's booth, 46th Book Fair, Averio Book Fair, Zine City, Atlas Aveiro, PRT
2022 | Artists of Trickhouse Press, organized by Dan Power, EIC, supported by Stanza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival, UK
2015-2023 | Contributors to O-Dark-Thirty anthologies, organized by Jerri Bell, editor, Veterans Writing Project, hosted by Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), host cities, USA

WORKSHOPS
2023 | Writer and Performer for Elements Workshops and Ecopoetry Workshops, hosted by Poets for the Planet, London, UK
​2021 | Writer for Veterans’ Poetry Workshop, hosted by the Warrior Writers, OH
2020 | Writer for Veterans’ Poetry Workshop, hosted by Dr. Niall Munro, Susie Campbell, Dr. Jane Potters, hosted by Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, Oxford, UK
2020 | Workshop Poetry and Theatre Panelist, hosted by Tim Marriott of Shell Shock Media for Army@theVirtual Fringe in association with Summerhall, UK
2020 | 10 Week Writing Workshop writer, facilitated by David Surface of The Veterans Writing Workshop and initiative of Fordham-Westchester University, NY

OPEN MICS AND LAUNCHES
2023 | !DADA! 2023 Worldwide Launch, organized by Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes, hosted by New York Public Library (NYPL)​ Jefferson Market, New York City, NY (online)
2021 | Eden (poetry reader), hosted by Sam Strathman, EIC of Floodlight Editions for the launch of Eden by Robert Frede Kenter (online)
2021 | Selected Dreams (poetry reader), presented by James Knight for the launch of a book of poetry by Dan Powers (online)
​​2021 | Poetry Performer for Words Springing and Performance, hosted by Michelle Scally Clarke, produced by the Clear Out Your Closet Collective, UK

BLURBS
2022 | Fifty-One Trillion Bits (poetry blurb writer), written by Katy Wilmhurst, edited by Dan Power, published by Trickhouse Press, Dundee, SCT
2022 | Flash-A-Ganza, (contributor), curated by Amanda Earl, hosted by AngelHousePress, CAN
​2021 | Eden (poetry blurb writer), written for Robert Frede Kenter and published by Samuel Strathman, EIC, Floodlight Editions
2021 | Fevers of the Mind Poetry Blog (logo designer), published by David O'Nan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2023 | Website Poetry Feature, vispo hybrid artist, published by Fevers of the Mind Press
2023 | Fevers of the Mind Press, artist, published by IceFloe Press
2022 | Righting History: Veterans History Project, artist feature, hosted by Uniting US
​2021 | Artist spotlight, reading of "Repairing the Artifact", aired on Pantsuit Politics Podcast
2021 | Artist review, published at AngelhousePress posted onto website and in newsletter
2021 | East City Art, Uniting US artist, published by ECA Editorial Team
2021 | Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, artist, published by Timglaset
2021 | Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health article, author, published by Dale Tracy, PhD, Assistant Professor of the Royal Military College of Canada
2021 | Auditioning for Poem Atlas, author, published by Poem Atlas
2021 | Poetry in Quarantine, artist, published by the Scottish Poetry Library
​​2021 | Standout Art from Coven’s Launch, feature, not interviewed, hosted by Leia Butler of Full House Lit Magazine
​2021 | A conversation with the EIC of The Babel Tower Notice Board EIC, vispo artist, hosted by Amanda Earl of The Small Machine Talks
​2020 | Women and gender non-conforming visual artists (Google map), developed by Amanda Earl, AngelHousePress
2020 | Standout film of Ice Floe Press, feature, published by the EIC of The Wombwell Rainbow
2020 | Review, poet, quoted by Jerri Bell, published by Kathryn Sudhuff of The Strategy Bridge

PRESS COVERAGE
2021 | Operation Gratitude works to pack cards from Challenge America Finalists' works of art.
​2021 | Spectrum News covers Operation Gratitude's Care PKG Mission of 12K deliveries of art by veterans.
​2021 | Fox 5 Coverage of the Uniting US Art Exhibition in Washington, DC.
​2021 | Fox 5 provides coverage of veteran artists in Washington, DC.
​​2021 | Article by Christie Matina covers the Uniting US Art Exhibition at the Women's Memorial, Washington, DC.