Kelly Link

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Kelly Link
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Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Born (1969-07-19) July 19, 1969 (age 56)
Miami, Florida, U.S. [1]
OccupationWriter
Education Columbia University (BA)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (MFA)
Genre Fantasy, horror, magical realism
Spouse Gavin Grant
Children1 [2]

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] 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 literary fiction. 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. [5]

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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 The 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.) In 2019, Link and Grant opened Book Moon, a new and used bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts. [6] Link also co-edits the literary magazine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, [7] and was the slush reader for Sci Fiction , edited by Datlow.

Link taught at Lenoir–Rhyne University 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:

She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Awards

Awards for Kelly Link
WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Travels with the Snow Queen1997 Otherwise Award Won
1999 World Fantasy Award Short FictionNominated
The Specialist's Hat1999 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionWon
Shoe and Marriage2001 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
Stranger Things Happen2001 Salon.com Book AwardFictionWon [8]
2002 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
2002 SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy Book5th Place [9]
2002 Locus Award CollectionNominated [10]
Louise's Ghost2002 Nebula Award NoveletteWon
Lull2003 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
Small Beer Press

(with Gavin Grant)

2003 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional awardNominated
2004 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional awardNominated
2005 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional awardNominated
2023 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional awardNominated
Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House

(with Gavin Grant)

2009 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional awardWon
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (17th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2004 Bram Stoker Award AnthologyWon
2005 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
2005 British Fantasy Award AnthologyNominated
The Faery Handbag 2004 BSFA Award Short FictionNominated
2005 Locus AwardNoveletteWon
2005 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
2005 Hugo Award NoveletteWon
2006 Nebula AwardNoveletteWon
2012 Premio IgnotusForeign StoryNominated
Catskin2004 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Hortlak2004 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2004 World Fantasy AwardNovellaNominated
Trampoline2004 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
2004 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
Stone Animals2005 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2005 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science FictionFinalist [11]
Magic for Beginners 2005 BSFA AwardShort FictionWon
2006 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist
2006 Locus AwardNovellaWon
2006 SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy Book5th Place [12]
2006 World Fantasy AwardNovellaNominated
2006 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
2006 Nebula AwardNovellaWon
2006 Theodore Sturgeon AwardShort Science Fiction3rd Place [13]
2008 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short StoriesNominated [14]
Magic for Beginners (Collection)2005 International Horror Guild Award CollectionNominated [15]
2005 Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionNominated
2005 Salon Book AwardWon [16]
2006 Locus AwardCollectionWon
2006 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
Some Zombie Contingency Plans2005 Bram Stoker AwardLong FictionNominated
2006 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Monster2006 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Great Divorce2006 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2006 Locus AwardAnthologyWon
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (19th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2007 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
2007 British Fantasy Award AnthologyNominated
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

(with Gavin Grant)

2007 Hugo AwardSemiprozineNominated
Light2008 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet2008 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
The Constable of Abal2008 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (20th Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2008 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
Pretty Monsters2009 Locus AwardNovellaWon
Pretty Monsters (Collection)2009 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
2009 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
The Surfer2009 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (21st Annual Collection)

(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)

2009 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
2009 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
Secret Identity2010 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Cinderella Game2010 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Summer People2011 Shirley Jackson Award NoveletteWon
2012 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2013 O. Henry Award Juror Favorite
Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

(with Gavin Grant)

2012 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
Valley of the Girls2012 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Two Houses2013 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2013 Shirley Jackson AwardShort FictionNominated [17]
I Can See Right Through You2015 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2015 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
Monstrous Affections

(with Gavin Grant)

2015 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated
2015 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
The Lady and the Fox2015 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The New Boyfriend2015 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
Get in Trouble 2016 Shirley Jackson Award CollectionNominated [18]
2016 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist
2016 Locus AwardCollectionNominated [19]
2016 Indies Choice Book Awards Adult FictionHonor
The Game of Smash and Recovery2016 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2016 Theodore Sturgeon AwardShort Science FictionWon
2017 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional awardContributions to the GenreNominated
The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear2020 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Skinder's Veil2022 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
White Cat, Black Dog2023 Kirkus Prize FictionNominated
2024 BookTube PrizeFictionOctofinalist [20]
2024 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
2024 Locus AwardCollectionWon
2024 Chautauqua Prize Shortlisted
Prince Hat Underground2024 World Fantasy AwardNovellaNominated
2024 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Book of Love 2025 Compton Crook Award NovelNominated [21]
2025 Nebula AwardNominated
2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize–Ray Bradbury Prize Won [22]


Bibliography

Books

Selected stories (award winners)

As author

As editor

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 March 15, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ Grant, Gavin (May 20, 2009). "Small Beer, little baby". Small Beer Press. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ Miller, Laura (November 19, 2001). "An interview with Kelly Link". Salon. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.
  4. ↑ Miller, Laura (February 4, 2015). ""Get in Trouble": Going back inside the weird and wonderful world of Kelly Link". Salon.
  5. ↑ Charles, Ron (October 4, 2018). "Short-story writer Kelly Link wins MacArthur 'genius' grant". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Book Moon". Book Moon. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  7. ↑ About Kelly. (January 7, 2020). Retrieved July 31, 2020, from https://kellylink.net/about-kelly
  8. ↑ https://www.librarything.com/award/228/Salon-Book-Award [ bare URL ]
  9. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2002 [ bare URL ]
  10. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards [ bare URL ]
  11. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2005 [ bare URL ]
  12. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2006 [ bare URL ]
  13. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2006 [ bare URL ]
  14. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2008 [ bare URL ]
  15. ↑ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html [ bare URL ]
  16. ↑ https://www.librarything.com/award/228/Salon-Book-Award [ bare URL ]
  17. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2013 [ bare URL ]
  18. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2016 [ bare URL ]
  19. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2016 [ bare URL ]
  20. ↑ https://www.booktubeprize.org/2024-fiction.html [ bare URL ]
  21. ↑ https://www.librarything.com/award/1412.2.0.2025/Compton-Crook-Award-Nominee-2025 [ bare URL ]
  22. ↑ Sanford, Karla Marie (April 25, 2025). "At L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony, winners advocate for hope in the face of uncertainty". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on June 4, 2025. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  23. ↑ "Kelly Link - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.
  24. ↑ "Speakers & Honorary Degrees | Smith College". www.smith.edu. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  25. ↑ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  26. ↑ Garrett, Yvonne C. (July 29, 2024). "Kelly Link's The Book of Love | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
  27. ↑ Gould, Emily (February 22, 2024). "How Kelly Link Wrote a Very Good First Novel". The Cut. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
  28. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (February 15, 2024). "Kelly Link's debut novel 'The Book of Love' is magical, confusing, heartfelt, strange". NPR. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
  29. ↑ El-Mohtar, Amal (February 12, 2024). "Book Review: 'The Book of Love,' by Kelly Link". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
  30. ↑ "White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  31. ↑ "The Book of Love by Kelly Link". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  32. ↑ El-Mohtar, Amal (February 12, 2024). "Kelly Link Returns with a Dreamlike, Profoundly Beautiful Novel". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  33. ↑ Link, Kelly (February 16, 2024). "Novelist Kelly Link: 'I was drawn to the monsters and half-naked women on fantasy covers'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  34. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (February 15, 2024). "Kelly Link's debut novel 'The Book of Love' is magical, confusing, heartfelt, strange". NPR.
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