Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer, born in 1948, who began writing in 1976. She is best known for Beggars in Spain, the Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella from 1991 that became a novel in 1993 and opened the Sleepless series. She won the Nebula for Best Novella again for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall in 2013 and for Yesterday's Kin in 2015. Kress also writes short fiction and a regular column for Writer's Digest, and she has been a regular at the Clarion Workshops.