Jack Skillingstead

(b. 1955)

Skillingstead is an American SF writer living in Seattle, Washington. As of 2014 Skillingstead had published thirty-one short stories in professional and semi-professional markets. He had also published two novels and a short story collection.

He has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In a review of Are You There and Other Stories, Skillingstead was called "a major author in the genre of SF."

Since 2011 he has been married to writer Nancy Kress.

See also http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/skillingstead_jack

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 2001 — winner in Stephen King's "On Writing" contest
• 2013 — ICON (Iowa) 38