Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels.
As of 2010, Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.
Awards
"Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner)
la Voie terrestre (1994), the French translation of Down the Bright Way (1991) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel)
"Decency" (1996) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
"Marrow" (1997) (Science Fiction Age reader poll, novella)
"She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story)
"A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2007
He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1987.