American science fiction writer (born 1948)
Nancy Kress
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Born
| Nancy Anne Koningisor
(
1948-01-20
)
January 20, 1948
(age 76)
Buffalo, New York
, U.S.
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Pen name
| Anna Kendall (for fantasy)
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Occupation
| Fiction writer
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Nationality
| American
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Education
| SUNY Plattsburgh
(
MA
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Period
| 1976?present
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Nancy Anne Kress
(born January 20, 1948) is an American
science fiction
writer.
[1]
She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her
Hugo
- and
Nebula
-winning novella
Beggars in Spain
(1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the
Nebula Award for Best Novella
in 2013 for
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
,
[2]
and in 2015 for
Yesterday's Kin
. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for
Writer's Digest
. She is a regular at
Clarion Workshops
.
[3]
During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the
University of Leipzig
's Institute for American Studies in
Leipzig
, Germany.
[4]
Biography
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Born Nancy Anne Koningisor in
Buffalo, New York
, she grew up in
East Aurora
and attended college at
SUNY Plattsburgh
and graduated with an M.A. in English.
[5]
Before starting her writing career she taught elementary school and then college English. In 1973, she moved to
Rochester
to marry Michael Joseph Kress. They had two sons, and divorced in 1984. At that time, she went to work at
Stanton and Hucko
, an
advertising agency
. She was married to Marcos Donnelly from 1988 to 1994.
In 1998, she married fellow author
Charles Sheffield
, who died in 2002 of a
brain tumor
. Kress moved back to
Rochester, New York
, to be near her grown children.
[3]
In 2009, she moved to Seattle.
[6]
In February 2011, she married author
Jack Skillingstead
.
[7]
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Work
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Kress tends to write
hard science fiction
, or technically realistic stories, often set in a fairly
near future
. Her fiction often involves
genetic engineering
and, to a lesser degree,
artificial intelligence
. There are many invented technologies shared between her stories, including "genemod", to refer to genetic engineering, and "foamcast", a lightweight and sturdy building material that appears in many of her novels and short stories.
By conducting extensive research, she keeps her topics within the realm of possibility; however, as Kress clarified for one
Locus
interviewer, with regards to her partner and fellow science fiction writer, "[Sheffield] pronounces it
science
fiction, and I pronounce it science
fiction
."
[8]
Kress also loves
ballet
, and has written stories around it.
Awards
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- Nebula Awards
- Best Short Story winner (1986): "
Out of All Them Bright Stars
",
F&SF
March 1985
- Best Novella (1991):
Beggars in Spain
(Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Feb. 1991) /
Asimov's
April 1991
- Best Novelette (1998): "The Flowers of Aulit Prison",
Asimov's
Oct./Nov. 1996
- Best Novella (2007): "
Fountain of Age
",
Asimov's
July 2007
- Best Novella (2012): "After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall", Tachyon Publications
- Best Novella (2014): "Yesterday's Kin", Tachyon Publications
- Hugo Award
- Best Novella
(1992):
Beggars in Spain
(Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Feb. 1991) /
Asimov's
April 1991
- Best Novella (2009): "The Erdmann Nexus",
Asimov's
Oct./Nov. 2008
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award
- Best Novel (2003):
Probability Space
, (Tor Sep. 2002)
- Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
- Best Short Science Fiction (1997): "The Flowers of Aulit Prison",
Asimov's
Oct./Nov. 1996
Bibliography
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Interviews
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