American editor and author
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]
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 .
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, 2004–2008In 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.
Otherwise Award/James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners
Retrospective winners 1991–2000
A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (1991, tie)
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie)
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1992)
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993)
"The Matter of Seggri " by Ursula K. Le Guin (1994, tie)
Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer (1994, tie)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1995, tie)
The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak (1995, tie)
"Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996, tie)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (1996, tie)
Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (1997, tie)
"Travels With The Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (1997, tie)
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation " by Raphael Carter (1998)
The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (1999)
Wild Life by Molly Gloss (2000)
2001–2010
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto (2001)
Light by M. John Harrison (2002, tie)
"Stories for Men" by John Kessel (2002, tie)
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff (2003)
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2004, tie)
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo (2004, tie)
Air by Geoff Ryman (2005)
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (2006, tie)
Half Life by Shelley Jackson (2006, tie)
James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2006, special recognition)
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (2008, tie)
Filter House by Nisi Shawl (2008, tie)
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (2009, tie)
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (2009, tie)
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010)
2011–2020 2021–present
Locus Award for Best Novella
1970 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Nebula Award for Best Novella
1966–1980 1981–2000 2001–2020 2021–present
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
1966–1980 1981–2000 2001–2020 2021–present
World Fantasy Award—Anthology
World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction
1975–2000
"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
"Belsen Express " by Fritz Leiber (1976)
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk (1977)
"The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
"Naples" by Avram Davidson (1979)
"Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
"The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
"The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
"Do the Dead Sing? " by Stephen King (1982, tie)
"The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee (1983)
"Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee (1984)
"The Bones Wizard" by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
"Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
"Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock (1986)
"Red Light" by David J. Schow (1987)
"Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station " by John M. Ford (1989)
"The Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser (1990)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream " by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
"The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell (1992)
"Graves " by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
"This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
"The Lodger" by Fred Chappell (1994)
"The Man in the Black Suit " by Stephen King (1995)
"The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
"Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock (1997)
"Dust Motes" by P. D. Cacek (1998)
"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1999)
"The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)
2001–present
World Fantasy Special Award—Professional
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