Norma K. Hemming

Norma Kathleen Hemming (September 1928 – 4 July 1960) was a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australia's first significant female science fiction writer. As N. K. Hemming she published 20 stories in the 1950s, and also wrote and appeared in a series of plays that were performed at Australian science fiction conventions. Under the name Nerina Hilliard, she also wrote eight romance novels for Mills & Boon. She was commemorated by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation through the Norma K. Hemming Award from 2010 to 2020.