Kelly Link

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]}

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Books

• Stranger Things Happen. Small Beer Press. 2001. ISBN 9781931520003.
• Magic for Beginners. Small Beer Press. 2005. ISBN 9780812986518.
• Pretty Monsters. Viking Books for Young Readers. 2008. ISBN 9781101215425.
• The Wrong Grave. Text Publishing. 2009. ISBN 9781921520730.
• Get in Trouble. Random House. 2016. ISBN 9780812986495.
• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories. Random House. 2023. ISBN 9780593449950.
• The Book of Love. Random House. 2024. ISBN 9780812986501.

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)