She grew higher within East Aurora, New York and attended college at SUNY Plattsburgh. Within 1973, she moved to Rochester to marry Michael Joseph Kress. It experienced ii sons, & divorced around 1984. At that instance, she went to work on Stanton & Hucko, an ad agency. Inside 1998, she married Charles Sheffield, who died inside 2002 of the brain tumour. Kress pull back to Rochester, New York, to be nigh her grown youngsters.

She tends to write technically naturalistic stories placed inside the fairly nigh first that has the plausible connection to the present. Her fiction typically involves genetic engineering, and, less than, artificial intelligence.

inside that cyclopedia, she shows higher in lists of two hard and soft science fiction authors. This maybe indicates the futility of such categorizations, however she does occupy something of a middle ground. She shows an interest inside the internal experiences of her characters that can be lacking in, say, Larry Niven or Greg Egan, & a areas of science and technology where she is virtually all interested come "softer" than a difficult SF favorites of physics and space flight. But then, she is tremendously extra concerned in the technical indicator details of her imaginary science than, say, Ursula LeGuin. & a few of her stories come quite nail-biting & plot-caused, which numerous associate to the "hard" side of the spectrum.

She loves ballet, and has written stories in the area of it.

Bibliography
Crucible (2004) Nothing Human (2003) Crossfire (2003) Probability Space (2002) Probability Sun (2001) Probability Moon (2000) Yanked (1999) Dynamic Characters (1998) Beaker's Dozen (1998) Stinger (1998) Maximum Light (1998) Beggars Ride (1996) Oaths and Miracles (1996) Beggars and Choosers (1994) The Aliens of Earth (1993) Beggars in Spain (1993) Brainrose (1990) An Alien Light (1988) Prince of the Morning Bells (1981)