Nancy Fulda is a past Hugo and Nebula Nominee, a Phobos Award winner and a Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award recipient. She is also a recipient of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, which was created to honor the role played by science fiction in advancing real science. She has been a featured writer at Apex Online and a guest on the Writing Excuses podcast, and is a previous member of both SFWA and the Villa Diodati Writers’ Workshop. She has written on request for David Brin, Tor Books, and MIT’s Technology Review, as well as for the Dark Expanse space strategy game.
Nancy’s most influential work, “Movement”, was a nominee for the BSFA, Hugo, and Nebula awards, and received the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice award in 2012. Other works of note include “Recollection”, which tells the story of a recovering dementia patient struggling to reconnect with his family, and “Planetbound”, which… well, that one you’d just better read for yourself. Her other fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Daily Science Fiction, and other venues. Reprints are available on Amazon.
Nancy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in 2002, and a Master’s Degree from the same university in 2004. She graduated with University Honors, and her research on multi-agent systems and common-sense understanding for robotics has been presented at several IEEE conferences as well as the 2017 Conference on Robot Learning. From 2005 to 2010, she worked as an assistant editor of Jim Baen’s Universe, one of the highest-paying speculative fiction markets of its time.
Between 2008 and 2009, she was the website content editor for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and until 2016 she was the owner, manager and chief web developer of AnthologyBuilder.com. In 2018, she led a research team as part of Amazon’s prestigious Alexa Prize challenge, a university competition to advance A.I.
Nancy’s approach to life includes a strong dose of optimism and a generous sprinkling of humor. During her graduate work at Brigham Young University she studied artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing. In the years since, she has grappled with the far more complex process of raising four small children. All these experiences sometimes infiltrate her writing.
Hemelein Publications works:
- “Angles of Incidence” in Trace the Stars
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