ARTIST | AUTHOR | POET
Maggs Vibo is the pen name for Margaret Viboolsittiseri. She is a veteran, scholar, and storyteller. To Vibo, visual poetry is a way to genuinely cherish wordsmithing and communicate through space and time. She creates visual and sculptural poems from many poetic forms and invites collaboration. She is attracted to the wicked bits of poetry, history & folk horror. Her poetry collides with various warrior myths, fairytales, memories, tall tales, artifacts, legends, absurdity, folktales, rituals, and dreams. She has a new release with Paper View, is a contributor for the newly released Penteract the Book, and a contributor to over a dozen other print anthologies.
Like many who serve in the military during war, Vibo believes global conflicts create individuals who encourage societies to negotiate for peace. She served as a sergeant in the United States Army and deployed to Nasiriyah, Iraq. In 2003, her unit (attached to XVIII Airborne Corps) earned a Presidential Unit Citation. Vibo's story was featured in the British Forces Broadcasting Service and she created glitch films for the Scotland Fringe Festival. Additionally, her work has been anthologized in Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre's 'My teeth don't chew on shrapnel': an anthology of poetry by military veterans, The Veterans Writing Workshop's Afterwords: I Am Here, and several literary O-Dark-Thirty journals published by the Veterans Writing Project. In 2021, she was a panelist for the Center of New American Security CNAS, a Poetry Finalist in a National 9/11 Art Competition, and spoke at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Her pieces have displayed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Dulles International Airport, and the National Veterans Art Museum. See more in the project list [Bibliography].
Like many who serve in the military during war, Vibo believes global conflicts create individuals who encourage societies to negotiate for peace. She served as a sergeant in the United States Army and deployed to Nasiriyah, Iraq. In 2003, her unit (attached to XVIII Airborne Corps) earned a Presidential Unit Citation. Vibo's story was featured in the British Forces Broadcasting Service and she created glitch films for the Scotland Fringe Festival. Additionally, her work has been anthologized in Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre's 'My teeth don't chew on shrapnel': an anthology of poetry by military veterans, The Veterans Writing Workshop's Afterwords: I Am Here, and several literary O-Dark-Thirty journals published by the Veterans Writing Project. In 2021, she was a panelist for the Center of New American Security CNAS, a Poetry Finalist in a National 9/11 Art Competition, and spoke at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Her pieces have displayed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Dulles International Airport, and the National Veterans Art Museum. See more in the project list [Bibliography].