- Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American author of
short stories born in 1969 [http://archive.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/11/19/kelly_link/index.html] . Her stories might be described as slipstream ormagic realism : sometimes a combination ofscience fiction ,fantasy , horror, mystery, and realism.Kelly Link moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, from Miami. She attended Greensboro Day School where she graduated in 1987. She grew up next door to her aunt and uncle, Sam and Babs Jones, and her two favorite cousins, Bryan and Laurie Jones. Kelly Link has two younger siblings, Holly Link of San Francisco, California, and Ben Link of New York, New York.
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 manageSmall Beer Press , based inNorthampton, Massachusetts . They also co-editSt. Martin's Press 's "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror " anthology series, along withEllen Datlow . (The couple inherited the "fantasy" side fromTerri Windling in 2004.) Link was also the slush reader forSci Fiction , edited by Datlow.Link taught at
Lenoir-Rhyne College inHickory, 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 includingBard College , Annandale-on-Hudson, NY;Brookdale Community College , Brookdale, NJ; the Imagination Workshop atCleveland State University ; New England Institute of Art & Communications,Brookline, MA ; Clarion East atMichigan State University ; and Clarion West inSeattle, WA . She has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst 'sMFA Program for Poets & Writers .Link currently teaches a course on Short Story Writing to undergraduates at
Smith College , near their home in Northampton, Massachusetts.Awards
Collections
* "Stranger Things Happen": Salon Book of the Year,
Village Voice favorite (available [http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/ here] as a free download, under aCreative Commons license)
*Magic for Beginners : 2006Locus Award for best short story collection (available [http://lcrw.net/kellylink/mfb/index.htm here] as a free download, under aCreative Commons license)tories
* "Magic for Beginners": 2005
Nebula Award for BestNovella
* "The Faery Handbag ": 2005 Hugo and Nebula Award for BestNovelette ,Locus Award winner
* "Stone Animals": 2005Best 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 As Author
*"4 Stories (chapbook)" Small Beer Press, 2000
*"Stranger Things Happen" Small Beer Press, 2001
*"Magic For Beginners" Small Beer Press, 2005, picked up by Harcourt, 2005
*"Catskin: a swaddled zine" Jelly Ink Press, date unknownAs 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-In addition, Link and Grant have edited a semiannual
small press fantasy magazine entitled "Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet " (or "LCRW") since 1997. An anthology, "The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet", was published byDel Rey Books in 2007.Interviews
* [http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2005/12/on-the-spot-at-bookspotcentral-kelly-link/ Interview with Kelly Link] conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com. (December 2005)
* [http://www.tuginternet.com/jja/journal/archives/002682.html Interview] conducted byJohn Joseph Adams
* [http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=5492 Interview] conducted by Stephany Aulenback at MaudNewton.com
* [http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue07/Link.html Interview excerpt] from "Locus " magazine.External links
* [http://www.kellylink.net/ Kelly Link] , official website
* [http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/ Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet]
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*Kelly Link's [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit81.html#3162 awards and nominations] at the "Locus" Index to Science Fiction Awards
* [http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/va-link/ Essay] on Link's story "Lull" atFantastic Metropolis
* [http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=1/5/06&tmplt_type=Show RealAudio Interview] from KCRW's Bookworm show
* [http://www.apublicspace.org/issue1/link.shtml An excerpt from Origin Story] from the magazine "A Public Space "
* [http://mainehumanities.org/podcasts/stonecoast.html Reading by Kelly from the Stonecoast MFA program's Winter 2008 residency]
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