Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-three books: fourteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, on YA novel, two thrillers, four story collections, and two books on writing. Her most recent book is NANO COMES TO CLIFFORD FALLS AND OTHER STORIES (Golden Gryphon Press, May, 2008), a collection of stories published in the last few years. Her most recent novels are NOTHING HUMAN (Golden Gryphon Press, 2003) and the duology CROSSFIRE (Tor, 2003) and CRUCIBLE (Tor, 2004). This mini-series explores various ways we might co-exist with aliens even though we never understand them or ourselves very well. Forthcoming in 2008 are DOGS (Tachyon, 2008), a bio-thriller set in present-day Maryland, and STEAL ACROSS THE SKY (Tor, 2008), an SF novel of galactic crime, genetic engineering, and alien atonement.

Kress’s short fiction has appeared in all the usual places. She has won four 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, in 1998 for “The Flowers of Aulit Prison," and in 2008 for the 2007 novella "Fountain of Age." 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 lives in Rochester, New York, with the world's most spoiled toy poodle.