Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer, born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in East Aurora. She began publishing in 1976 and became a full-time writer in 1990. Her work is mostly hard science fiction, often concerned with genetic engineering.

She is best known for the novella and novel Beggars in Spain, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards, and for the Kin sequence, whose novella Yesterday's Kin won the Nebula. She has also written as Anna Kendall, writes on craft for Writer's Digest and teaches at writing workshops. She lives in Seattle with her husband, the writer Jack Skillingstead.