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Kelly Link
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Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
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Miami, Florida, U.S.[1]
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OccupationWriter, professor, bookseller
EducationColumbia University (BA)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (MFA)
GenreFantasy, horror, magical realism
Notable awardsMacArthur Fellowship
Hugo Award
Nebula Award
World Fantasy Award
SpouseGavin Grant
Children1[2]
Website
kellylink.net

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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] Many of her stories have been described as slipstream or magical realism, combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and literary fiction.[5][6] She has won a Hugo Award, three Nebula Awards, and three World Fantasy Awards.[7] She was one of the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.[8]

Biography

Link is a graduate of Columbia University and of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[6] In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.[9]

She and her husband, Gavin Grant, manage Small Beer Press, a publisher based in Northampton, Massachusetts.[10] Small Beer Press has an imprint for intermediate readers called Big Mouth House.[11] Link and Grant co-edit the literary zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, published by Small Beer Press.[12] They also co-edited St. Martin's Press's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008.[13] Link was previously the slush reader for Sci Fiction.[14]

In 2019, Link and Grant opened Book Moon, an independent bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts.[15]

Link taught at Lenoir–Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series during the 2005-2006 semester.[16] She has taught at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College,[17] Cleveland State University,[18] the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University,[9] University of Massachusetts Amherst,[19] and Clarion West Writers Workshop.[20]

In 2018, she received a MacArthur Fellowship.[21] She is a professor at Smith College, where she is the Elizabeth Drew Professor of English Language and Literature.[22] She received an honorary degree from Smith College in 2023.[23]

In 2024, Random House published Link's first novel, The Book of Love.[24][25][26][27]

Awards

Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
"Travels with the Snow Queen" 1997 Otherwise Award Won [7]
1999 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated [7]
"The Specialist's Hat" 1999 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Won [7]
"Shoe and Marriage" 2001 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated [7]
"Louise's Ghost" 2001 Nebula Award Novelette Won [28]
Stranger Things Happen 2001 Salon.com Book Award Fiction Won [29]
2002 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated [7]
2002 SF Site Readers Poll SF/Fantasy Book 5th Place [30]
2002 Locus Award Collection Nominated [31]
Lull 2003 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [7]
Small Beer Press

(with Gavin Grant)

2003 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional award Nominated [7]
2004 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award Nominated [32]
2005 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award Nominated [7]
2023 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award Nominated [33]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

(17th Annual Collection) (with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2004 Bram Stoker Award Anthology Won [34]
2005 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [35]
2005 British Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House

(with Gavin Grant)

2009 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award Won [36]
"The Faery Handbag" 2004 BSFA Award Short Fiction Nominated [37]
2005 Locus Award Novelette Won [38]
2005 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated [37]
2005 Hugo Award Novelette Won [39]
2005 Nebula Award Novelette Won [40]
2012 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Nominated
Catskin 2004 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
The Hortlak 2004 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
2004 World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated [32]
Trampoline 2004 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
2004 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated [32]
"Stone Animals" 2005 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [35]
2005 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist [41]
Magic for Beginners 2005 BSFA Award Short Fiction Won [42]
2006 Young Lions Fiction Award Template:CFinalist [43]
2006 Locus Award Novella Won [44]
2006 SF Site Readers Poll SF/Fantasy Book 5th Place [45]
2006 World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated [46]
2006 Hugo Award Novella Nominated [47]
2005 Nebula Award Novella Won [40]
2006 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction 3rd Place [48]
2008 Grand prix de l'imaginaire Foreign Short Story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Nominated [49]
Magic for Beginners 2005 International Horror Guild Award Collection Nominated [50]
2005 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Nominated [51]
2005 Salon Book Award Won [29]
2006 Locus Award Collection Won [44]
2006 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated [46]
"Some Zombie Contingency Plans" 2005 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Nominated [51]
2006 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [52]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2006 Locus Award Anthology Won [44]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (19th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2007 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [53]
2007 British Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated [54]
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

(with Gavin Grant)

2007 Hugo Award Semiprozine Nominated [55]
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 2008 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [56]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (20th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2008 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [56]
"Pretty Monsters" 2009 Locus Award Novella Won [57]
Pretty Monsters 2009 Locus Award Collection Nominated [58]
2009 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated [36]
The Surfer 2009 Locus Award Novella Nominated [58]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (21st Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2009 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [58]
2009 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated [36]
"Secret Identity" 2010 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [59]
"The Cinderella Game" 2010 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [59]
"The Summer People" 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Novelette Won [60]
2012 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [61]
2013 O. Henry Award Juror Favorite [62]
Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

(with Gavin Grant)

2012 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [61]
"Valley of the Girls" 2012 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [61]
"I Can See Right Through You" 2015 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [63]
2015 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated [64]
Monstrous Affections

(with Gavin Grant)

2015 Locus Award Anthology Nominated [63]
2015 World Fantasy Award Anthology Won [64]
"The Lady and the Fox" 2015 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [63]
"The New Boyfriend" 2015 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [63]
Get in Trouble 2016 Shirley Jackson Award Collection Nominated [65]
2016 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated [66]
2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Template:CFinalist [67]
2016 Locus Award Collection Nominated [68]
2016 Indies Choice Book Awards Adult Fiction Template:CFinalist [69]
"The Game of Smash and Recovery" 2016 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [68]
2016 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Won [70]
2017 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award Contributions to the Genre Nominated [71]
"The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear" 2020 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [72]
"Skinder's Veil" 2022 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [73]
White Cat, Black Dog 2023 Kirkus Prize Fiction Nominated [74]
2024 BookTube Prize Fiction Octofinalist [75]
2024 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated [76]
2024 Locus Award Collection Won [77]
2024 Chautauqua Prize Shortlisted [78]
Prince Hat Underground 2024 World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated [76]
2024 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [77]
The Book of Love 2025 Compton Crook Award Novel Nominated [79]
2024 Nebula Award Nominated [80]
2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction Won [81][82]

Bibliography

Books

Selected stories

  • "The Game of Smash and Recovery"
  • "The Summer People"
  • "Pretty Monsters"
  • "Magic for Beginners"
  • "The Faery Handbag"
  • "Stone Animals"
  • "Louise's Ghost"
  • "The Specialist's Hat"
  • "Travels with the Snow Queen"

As editor

  • Trampoline (Small Beer Press, 2003)
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Volumes 17 - 21 (with Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant, St Martin's Griffin, 2004 - 2008)
  • Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (with Gavin J. Grant, Candlewick Press, 2011)
  • Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (with Gavin J. Grant, Candlewick Press, 2014)
  • The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (with Gavin J. Grant, Del Rey Books, 2007)

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