Nancy Kress
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Buffalo, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Writer
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SUNY Plattsburgh (
MA)
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| period = 1976–present
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Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American
science fiction writer. 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'', 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. 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.
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