낸시 크레스

소개

낸시 크레스(Nancy Kress, 본명 낸시 앤 코닝기서, 1948년 1월 20일 뉴욕주 버팔로 태생)는 미국의 과학소설 작가이다. 그녀는 1976년부터 작품활동을 시작했지만 1990년에 중편 〈Beggars in Spain〉을 발표하고 휴고상과 네뷸러상을 수상한 이후에야 주목받게 되었다. 크레스는 Writer's Digest 지에 정기 컬럼을 게재하고 있다.

Nancy Anne Kress 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.