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Nancy Kress
Kress in 2007
Kress in 2007
BornNancy Anne Koningisor
(1948-01-20) January 20, 1948 (age 76)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Pen nameAnna Kendall (for fantasy)
OccupationFiction writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationSUNY Plattsburgh (MA)
Period1976–present
Genre
Spouse
  • Michael Kress (1973-1984)
  • Marcos Donnelly (1988-1994)
  • Charles Sheffield (1998–2002)
  • Jack Skillingstead (2011–now)[1]
  • Website
    nancykress.com

    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][8]

    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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    Bibliography

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    References

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    1. ^ a b c Clute, John (29 June 2015). "Kress, Nancy". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  • ^ "2012 Nebula Award Winners". Locus Online. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  • ^ a b "Nancy Kress Home Page". Nancy Kress. 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  • ^ "The Picador Guest Professorship for Literature". American Studies: Leipzig. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  • ^ A Conversation With Nancy Kress, retrieved 11 October 2015
  • ^ David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (2010). Year's Best SF15. Eos Books. p. 119.
  • ^ Kress, Nancy (11 February 2011). "Las Vegas". Nancy's Blog. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  • ^ a b Evens, Arthur (2010). The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Wesleyan University Press. p. 580.
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