* In 2005, Gibney was awarded a grant from the Bush Artist Fellows Program.

* Among Gibney’s many published works are more than 100 articles she wrote for the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder; an essay on Octavia Butler in The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative; and an essay on artistic and political collaboration in Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. (“Praxis” is a term frequently used by Marxists to signify the importance of action, as opposed to mere theory.)