Nancy Kress is one of the leading SF writers to become prominent in the last decade. She began by writing fantasy novels (The Prince of Morning Bells, 1981) but also wrote distinguished science fiction short stories, many collected in Trinity (1985). Then in 1988, with An Alien Light, Kress turned entirely to SF and began to publish the SF novels and stories for which she is famous today, most prominently the Hugo and Nebula award-winning "Beggars in Spain," from which has grown a trilogy of novels. In her hard SF mode she is most often interested in the biological sciences and their moral and social impact on individual human lives.
This bio taken from Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell.
Catch-22's page on Nancy Kress.
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