Nancy Kress was born and raised in upstate New York, where she
spent most of her childhood either reading or playing in the woods.
She earned a bachelor's and master's degree in education, as well
as an M.A. in English. While she was pregnant with the second of
her two sons, she started writing fiction. She had never planned on
becoming a writer, but staying at home full-time with infants left
her time to experiment.
In 1990 she went full-time as an SF writer. The first thing she
wrote in this new status was the novella version of "Beggars In
Spain," which won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award. She is the
author of more than twenty books, including more than a dozen
novels of science fiction and fantasy, as well as three story
collections, and two books on writing. Of her most recent novels,
"Probability Space "(Tor, 2002) won the John W. Campbell Award for
Best SF novel. Her short fiction has appeared in all the usual
places, garnering her one Hugo and three Nebula Awards. Her work
has been translated into Swedish, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Polish, Japanese, Croatian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Greek, Hebrew,
and Russian. She is also the monthly "Fiction" columnist for
"Writer's Digest Magazine" and she teaches writing regularly at
various places, including Clarion and The Writing Center in
Bethesda, Maryland. She currently resides in Rochester, New York.
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