Kelly Link
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Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 [1]. Her stories might be described as slipstream: 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 Fransico 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. 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. 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.
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[edit] Awards
[edit] Collections
- Stranger Things Happen: Salon Book of the Year, Village Voice favorite (Available here as a free download, under a Creative Commons license)
- Magic for Beginners
[edit] Stories
- "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
[edit] As Author
- 4 Stories (chapbook) Small Beer Press, 2000
- Stranger Things Happen Small Beer Press, 2001
- Magic For Beginners Small Beer Press, 2005
- Catskin: a swaddled zine Jelly Ink Press, date unknown
[edit] 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.
[edit] Interviews
- Interview with Kelly Link conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com. (December 2005)
- Interview conducted by John Joseph Adams
- Interview conducted by Stephany Aulenback at MaudNewton.com
- Interview excerpt from Locus magazine.
[edit] External links
- Kelly Link, official website
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Kelly Link at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- 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
- An excerpt from Origin Story from the magazine A Public Spaceja:ケリー・リンク
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