Kristine-Kathryn-Rusch
 Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made the bestseller lists worldwide and have been published in 14 countries and 13 different languages.
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the
science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in thirteen Year¹s Best collections.
Pyr published her novel, Diving into the Wreck, in November of 2009. Her next short story collection, Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories, is now availble from Golden Gryphon.
In spring of 2011, she will publish City of Ruins, the next book in theDiving universe, and she will have a new Kristine Grayson novel, The Charming Way.
In 2009, her short story, ³G-Men,² appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories and The Year¹s Best Science Fiction, the first time the same story appeared in both a mystery and science fiction best of the year collection. In 2008, she won both the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award and the Asimov¹s Readers Choice Award.
In 2007, she became one of a handful of writers to twice win the Best Mystery Novel award given for the best mystery published in the Northwest (for her Kris Nelscott books). Her novella, ³Diving into the Wreck,² has won the prestigious international UPC award, given in Spain to the best science fiction novella in English, French, Spanish or Catalan. That novella also won the Asimov¹s Readers Choice award. Her critically acclaimed Retrieval Artist series has won the Endeavor Award and is currently nominated for the Romantic Times Book Review¹s Reviewer¹s Choice Award for Best Science Fiction novel.
In 2001, her story, ³Millennium Babies,² won the coveted Hugo Award. That year, she also received the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (for her Kris Nelscott Series) and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance (for her novel Utterly Charming, written as Kristine Grayson). In 1999, her story, ³Echea,² (available at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov¹s Reader¹s Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader¹s Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader¹s Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader¹s choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.
She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast. Follow her on her website.
Links of interest.
Locus
Her offical Site
The Speculative Fiction Database
Note: Pseudonyms include (Wikipedia)
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