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Kelly Link
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Born	(1969-07-19)July 19, 1969 (age 56) Miami, Florida, U.S.[1]
Occupation	Writer
Education	Columbia University (BA) University of North Carolina, Greensboro (MFA)
Genre	Fantasy,horror,magical realism
Spouse	Gavin Grant
Children	1[2]

Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and writer. Mainly known as an author of short stories, she published her first novel,The Book of Love in 2024.^[3][4] While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described asslipstream ormagic realism: a combination of science fiction,fantasy,horror,mystery, andliterary fiction. Among other honors, she has won aHugo Award, threeNebula Awards, and aWorld Fantasy Award for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018MacArthur "Genius" Grant.^[5]

Link is a graduate ofColumbia University inNew York and the MFA program ofUNC Greensboro. In 1995, she attended theClarion East Writing Workshop.

Link and husbandGavin Grant manageSmall Beer Press, based inNorthampton, Massachusetts. The couple's imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House. They also co-editedSt. Martin's Press'sThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series withEllen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. (The couple inherited the "fantasy" side fromTerri Windling in 2004.) In 2019, Link and Grant opened Book Moon, a new and used bookstore inEasthampton, Massachusetts.^[6] Link also co-edits the literary magazineLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,^[7] and was theslush reader forSci Fiction, edited by Datlow.

Link taught atLenoir–Rhyne University inHickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series for spring semester 2006. She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including:

• Bard College inAnnandale-on-Hudson, New York;
• Brookdale Community College ofLincroft, New Jersey;
• the Imagination Workshop atCleveland State University;
• New England Institute of Art & Communications,Brookline, Massachusetts;
• Clarion East atMichigan State University,Lansing;
• Clarion West inSeattle, Washington; and
• Smith College, near her home in Northampton.

She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst'sMFA Program for Poets & Writers.

• 2018:MacArthur Fellowship^[22]
• 2023: Honorary degree from Smith College.^[23]

• Stranger Things Happen: 2001Salon Book of the Year,The Village Voice favorite (available here[1] as a free download, under aCreative Commons license)
• Magic for Beginners: 2006Locus Award for Best Short Story Collection
• Pretty Monsters: 2008 World Fantasy^[24] and Locus Award finalist.
• Get in Trouble: 2016Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist.
• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories (Random House, 2023)
• The Book of Love: 2024^{[25][26][27][28]}

• "The Game of Smash and Recovery": 2016Theodore Sturgeon Award
• "The Summer People": 2011Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette, 2013The O. Henry Prize Stories
• "Pretty Monsters": 2009Locus Award for Best Novella
• "Magic for Beginners": 2005Nebula Award for Best Novella
• "The Faery Handbag": 2005Hugo andNebula Award for Best Novelette,Locus Award winner
• "Stone Animals": 2005The Best American Short Stories
• "Louise's Ghost": 2001Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• "The Specialist's Hat": 1999World Fantasy Award
• "Travels with the Snow Queen": 1997James Tiptree, Jr. Award

• 4 Stories (chapbook),Small Beer Press, 2000
• Stranger Things Happen, Small Beer Press, 2001
• Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press, 2005 (reprinted by Harcourt, 2005)
• Catskin: a swaddled zine, Jelly Ink Press, date unknown
• Pretty Monsters: Stories,Viking Juvenile, 2008
• The Wrong Grave, 2009
• Get in Trouble: Stories,Random House, 2015
• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories, Random House, 2023^[29]
• The Book of Love, Random House, 2024^{[30][31][32][33]}

• Trampoline Small Beer Press, 2003
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Volumes 17 - 21 (from 2004-2008) (withEllen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant)
• Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) (with Gavin J. Grant)
• Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (2014) (with Gavin J. Grant)

In addition, Link and Grant have edited a semiannualsmall press fantasy magazine:Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (orLCRW) since 1997. An anthology,The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, was published byDel Rey Books in 2007.

• Official website
• Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
• Kelly Link at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kelly Link'sawards and nominations at the Science Fiction Awards Database
• Essay on Link's story "Lull" at Fantastic Metropolis
• RealAudio Interview from KCRW's Bookworm show
• An excerpt from Origin Story from the magazineA Public Space
• Reading by Kelly from the Stonecoast MFA program's Winter 2008 residencyArchived September 24, 2018, at theWayback Machine

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• World Fantasy Award–winning writers
• Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts
• University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
• American women short story writers
• American chapbook writers
• Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
• Writers from Massachusetts
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• MacArthur Fellows
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• American weird fiction writers
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