Kelly Link
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Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 ([judging by this 2001 article]). Her stories might be described as slipstream: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.
Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995 she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.
Link and husband Gavin Grant manage their own small press Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. They also co-edit St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series, along with Ellen Datlow. (The couple inherited the "fantasy" side from Terri Windling in 2004.) Link was also the slush reader for Sci Fiction, edited by Datlow. In an interview, Link cited Dave Sim as a source of information on self-publishing.
Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina with the Visiting Writers Series for the spring semester of 2006. She also has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Brookdale Community College, Brookdale, NJ; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, MA; Clarion East at Michigan State University; and Clarion West in Seattle, WA. Her story "Stone Animals" appeared in the 2005 edition of The Best American Short Stories. She has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.
Link and Grant live in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Awards
Collections
- Stranger Things Happen: Salon Book of the Year, Village Voice favorite
Stories
- "Magic for Beginners": 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella
- "The Faery Handbag": 2005 Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award winner
- "Louise's Ghost": 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
- "The Specialist's Hat": 1999 World Fantasy Award
- "Travels with the Snow Queen": 1997 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
As Author
- 4 Stories (chapbook) Small Beer Press, 2000
- Stranger Things Happen Small Beer Press, 2001
- Magic For Beginners Small Beer Press, 2005
As Editor
- Trampoline Small Beer Press, 2003
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror volume 17- (with Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant) St. Martin's Press, 2004-
External links
- [Kelly Link], official website
- [Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet]
- [] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [Interview] conducted by Jay Tomio for [Fantasybookspot.com]
- [Interview] conducted by John Joseph Adams
- [Interview] conducted by Stephany Aulenback at MaudNewton.com
- [Interview excerpt] from Locus magazine.
- Kelly Link's [awards and nominations] at the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards
- [Essay] on Link's story "Lull" at Fantastic Metropolis
- [RealAudio Interview] from KCRW's Bookworm show
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