Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-one books: thirteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, one YA novel, two thrillers, three story collections, and two books on writing.

Kress's short fiction has appeared in all the usual places. She has won three Nebulas: in 1985 for 'Out of All Them Bright Stars,' in 1991 for the novella version of 'Beggars In Spain,' which also won a Hugo, and in 1998 for 'The Flowers of Aulit Prison.' Nancy has also won a Sturgeon (for "Flowers of Aulit Prison") and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for the hard-SF novel PROBABILITY SPACE.) Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Croatian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and Chinese.

Kress is the monthly 'Fiction' columnist for WRITER�S DIGEST MAGAZINE. She teaches regularly at Clarion.