Norma Kathleen Heming (born September 1928 – July 4 1960) is a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australia's first significant science fiction writer. N.K Hemming also published twenty stories in the 1950s and also wrote and appeared in a series of plays shown at Australian science fiction conventions. Under the name Nerina Hilliard, she has also written 8 romance novels for Mills & Boon. It is now celebrated by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation with the Norma K. Hemming Prize, which opened at the World Science Fiction Congress in Melbourne in September 2010.