Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist presently co-editing the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series with her husband David G. Hartwell. Her most recent historical anthologies include The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) and The Hard SF Renaissance (2002), both co-edited with David Hartwell. Their previous hard SF anthology was The Ascent of Wonder (1994). She will be the P. Schuyler Miller Critic Guest of Honor at Confluence 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA. She won a World Fantasy Award (1988) for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear, co-edited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award (1991) for her anthology, Walls of Fear. With Hartwell, she has also co-edited such anthologies as Christmas Ghosts (1987) and Spirits of Christmas (1989). She was a runner-up for the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award (1990) for best critical essay on science fiction, and she is on the editorial board of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated fifteen times for the Hugo Award. John Clute has called her criticism "spiky" and "erudite." She is an Internet Consultant for Wolfram Research, Inc. in the Scientific Information Group.