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 or magic realism: sometimes a combination of science 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 manage 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.

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. She has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA 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 a Creative Commons license)
* Magic for Beginners: 2006 Locus Award for best short story collection (available [http://lcrw.net/kellylink/mfb/index.htm here] as a free download, under a Creative Commons license)

tories

* "Magic for Beginners": 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella
* "The Faery Handbag": 2005 Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award winner
* "Stone Animals": 2005 Best American Short Stories
* "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, picked up by Harcourt, 2005
*"Catskin: a swaddled zine" Jelly Ink Press, date unknown

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-

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 by Del 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 by John 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" at Fantastic 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]