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Kelly Link


Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 [1]. Her stories might be described as slipstream: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.

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. They also co-edit St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series, along with Ellen Datlow. (The couple inherited the "fantasy" side from Terri Windling in 2004.) Link was also the slush reader for Sci Fiction, edited by Datlow. In an interview, Link cited Dave Sim as a source of information on self-publishing.

Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina with the Visiting Writers Series for the spring semester of 2006. She also has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Brookdale Community College, Brookdale, NJ; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, MA; Clarion East at Michigan State University; and Clarion West in Seattle, WA. She has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Link and Grant live in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Awards

Collections

Stories

As Author

  • 4 Stories (chapbook) Small Beer Press, 2000
  • Stranger Things Happen Small Beer Press, 2001
  • Magic For Beginners Small Beer Press, 2005
  • Catskin: a swaddled zine Jelly Ink Press, date unknown

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

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Short Stories may refer to one of the following.
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Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction/fantasy or mainstream literary fiction.

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Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil—or, occasionally, misunderstood—supernatural element into everyday human
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Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term is also used to describe works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid.
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Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Its main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
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Clarion is a six-week workshop for new and aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. The first was held in 1968.
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For the footballer, see Gavin Grant (footballer)
Gavin J. Grant is a writer and the editor and publisher of Small Beer Press, as well as a reviewer. In 1996, he became publisher and editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
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Small Beer Press is a well-regarded publisher of fantasy and literary fiction, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was founded by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link in 2000 and publishes novels, collections, and anthologies.
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St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St.
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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a respected reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition includes a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others.
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Ellen Datlow (born 1949) is an American speculative fiction editor and anthologist.

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Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies.
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Terri Windling is an editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults.

In the American publishing field, Windling is one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s -- first through her work
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In publishing, the slush pile is the set of unsolicited manuscripts either sent directly to the publisher by authors, or sent through an agent not known to the publisher.

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Sci Fiction was at one time the leading online magazine for science fiction. The magazine was created by the Sci Fi Channel and edited by Ellen Datlow who previously had edited two other online magazines.
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Dave Sim

Dave Sim at home in Kitchener on December 15, 2003, shortly before finishing work on Cerebus. Photograph by Dave Fisher.
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Lenoir-Rhyne College is a co-educational, private liberal arts college founded in 1891 and located in Hickory, North Carolina, in the western part of the state. The college is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
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Bard College, founded in 1860, is a small, selective, four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York's Hudson Valley region. It is consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges by U.S. News[1].
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Brookdale Community College is an accredited, coeducational, public community college in Lincroft, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Since its inception in 1967, Brookdale Community College has offered access to quality education throughout Monmouth County.
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