Kelly Link

Kelly Link
Born 1969 (age 48–49)
Miami, Florida, United States[1]
Occupation Writer
Nationality United States
Alma mater Columbia University
Genre Fantasy, horror
Spouse Gavin Grant
Children Ursula Annabel Link Grant.[2]

Kelly Link (born 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories.[3] While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo award, three Nebula awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant.[4]

Biography

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. The couple's imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House. They also co-edited St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. (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 spring semester 2006. She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts; Clarion East at Michigan State University; Clarion West in Seattle, Washington; and Smith College, near her home in Northampton. She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Awards

Books

Selected stories (award winners)

As author

  • 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

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, 2004–2008

In addition, Link and Grant have edited a semiannual small press fantasy magazine: 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.

References

  1. ↑ "About Kelly". Kelly Link. Archived from the original on 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  2. ↑ Grant, Gavin (2009-05-20). "Small Beer, little baby". Small Beer Press. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  3. ↑ http://www.salon.com/2015/02/04/get_in_trouble_going_back_inside_the_weird_and_wonderful_world_of_kelly_link/Laura+Miller+(2001-11-19).+%22An+interview+with+Kelly+Link+-+Salon.com%22.+Archive.salon.com.+Archived+from+the+original+on+2008-03-07.+Retrieved+2013-05-01..mw-parser-output+cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output+q{quotes:%22\%22%22%22\%22%22%22'%22%22'%22}.mw-parser-output+code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-lock-free+a{background:url(%22//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png%22)no-repeat;background-position:right+.1em+center}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-lock-limited+a,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-lock-registration+a{background:url(%22//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png%22)no-repeat;background-position:right+.1em+center}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-lock-subscription+a{background:url(%22//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png%22)no-repeat;background-position:right+.1em+center}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-subscription+span,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-registration+span{border-bottom:1px+dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output+.cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output+.cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}%0A
  4. ↑ Charles, Ron (4 October 2018). "Short-story writer Kelly Link wins MacArthur 'genius' grant". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  5. ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1017/
  6. ↑ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
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