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{{short description|American editor and author}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name          = Kelly Link
| image         = Gavin Grant and Kelly Link.jpg
| caption       = Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1969|7|19}}
| birth_place   = Miami, Florida, U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kellylink.net/pretty-monsters-bio |title=About Kelly |publisher=Kelly Link |access-date=May 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315010831/http://kellylink.net/pretty-monsters-bio |archive-date=March 15, 2013}}</ref>
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| occupation    = Writer
| education     = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of North Carolina, Greensboro]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
| genre         = [[Fantasy literature|Fantasy]], [[Horror fiction|horror]], [[magical realism]]
| spouse        = [[Gavin Grant (editor)|Gavin Grant]]
| children      = 1<ref name="smallbeer">{{cite news |last=Grant |first=Gavin |url=http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2009/05/20/small-beer-little-baby/ |title=Small Beer, little baby |work=Small Beer Press |date=May 20, 2009 |access-date=August 12, 2011}}</ref> 
}}
'''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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Miller |url=http://archive.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/11/19/kelly_link/index.html |title=An interview with Kelly Link |work=Salon |date=November 19, 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307164703/http://archive.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/11/19/kelly_link/index.html |archive-date=March 7, 2008}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Miller |title="Get in Trouble": Going back inside the weird and wonderful world of Kelly Link |url=https://www.salon.com/abtest3/2015/02/04/get_in_trouble_going_back_inside_the_weird_and_wonderful_world_of_kelly_link/ |website=Salon |language=en |date=February 4, 2015}}</ref> While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as [[Slipstream genre|slipstream]] or [[magic realism]]: a combination of science fiction, [[fantasy]], [[horror fiction|horror]], [[Mystery fiction|mystery]], and [[literary fiction]]. Among other honors, she has won a [[Hugo Award]], three [[Nebula Award|Nebula Awards]], and a [[World Fantasy Award]] for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" Grant]].<ref name="macarthur">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/short-story-writer-kelly-link-wins-macarthur-genius-grant/2018/10/04/75b53be8-c768-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html |title=Short-story writer Kelly Link wins MacArthur 'genius' grant |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 4, 2018 |access-date=October 4, 2018 |author=Charles, Ron}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Link is a graduate of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City|New York]] and the MFA program of [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro|UNC Greensboro]]. In 1995, she attended the [[Clarion Workshop|Clarion East Writing Workshop]].

Link and husband [[Gavin Grant (editor)|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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Moon |url=https://www.bookmoonbooks.com/ |website=Book Moon |access-date=February 29, 2024}}</ref> Link also co-edits the literary magazine ''Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,''<ref>About Kelly. (January 7, 2020). Retrieved July 31, 2020, from https://kellylink.net/about-kelly</ref> and was the [[slush pile|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:

* [[Bard College]] in [[Annandale-on-Hudson, New York]]; 
* [[Brookdale Community College]] of [[Lincroft, New Jersey]]; 
* the Imagination Workshop at [[Cleveland State University]]; 
* New England Institute of Art & Communications, [[Brookline, Massachusetts]]; 
* [[Clarion Workshop|Clarion East]] at [[Michigan State University]], [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]]; 
* [[Clarion West Writers Workshop|Clarion West]] in [[Seattle]], Washington; and 
* [[Smith College]], near her home in Northampton. 

She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]'s [[University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts|MFA Program for Poets & Writers]].

==Awards==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Awards for Kelly Link
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! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Result !! Ref.
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| rowspan="2" |''Travels with the Snow Queen''
|1997 [[Otherwise Award]]
|
|{{Won}}
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|1999 [[World Fantasy Award]]
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Specialist's Hat''
|1999 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Shoe and Marriage''
|2001 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |''Stranger Things Happen''
|2001 Salon.com Book Award
|Fiction
|{{Won}}
|<ref> https://www.librarything.com/award/228/Salon-Book-Award </ref>
|-
|2002 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2002 SF Site Readers Poll
|SF/Fantasy Book
|{{Nominated|5th Place}}
|<ref> https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2002 </ref>
|-
|2002 [[Locus Award]]
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Louise's Ghost''
|2002 [[Nebula Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Lull''
|2003 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |''[[Small Beer Press]]''
''(with [[Gavin Grant (editor)|Gavin Grant]])''
|2003 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional]] award
|
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2004 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Professional]] award
|
|{{Nominated}}
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|-
|2005 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Professional]] award
|
|{{Nominated}}
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|-
|2023 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Professional]] award
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|{{Nominated}}
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|-
| rowspan="1" |''Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House''
''(with Gavin Grant)''
|2009 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Professional]] award
|
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (17th Annual Collection)''
''(with [[Ellen Datlow]] and Gavin Grant)''
|2004 [[Bram Stoker Award]]
|Anthology
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2005 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2005 [[British Fantasy Award]]
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="6" |''[[The Faery Handbag]]''
|2004 [[BSFA Award]]
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2005 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2005 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2005 [[Hugo Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2006 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2012 Premio Ignotus
|Foreign Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Catskin''
|2004 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The Hortlak''
|2004 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2004 World Fantasy Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Trampoline''
|2004 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2004 World Fantasy Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Stone Animals''
|2005 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2005 [[Theodore Sturgeon Award]]
|Short Science Fiction
|{{CFinalist}}
|<ref> https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2005 </ref>
|-
| rowspan="9" |''[[Magic for Beginners (novella)|Magic for Beginners]]''
|2005 BSFA Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2006 [[Young Lions Fiction Award]]
|
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2006 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2006 SF Site Readers Poll
|SF/Fantasy Book
|{{Nominated|5th Place}}
|<ref> https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_2006 </ref>
|-
|2006 World Fantasy Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2006 Hugo Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2006 Nebula Award
|Novella
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2006 Theodore Sturgeon Award
|Short Science Fiction
|{{Nominated|3rd Place}}
|<ref> https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2006 </ref>
|-
|2008 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]]
|Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+2008 </ref>
|-
| rowspan="5" |''[[Magic for Beginners (short story collection)|Magic for Beginners]]'' (Collection)
|2005 [[International Horror Guild Award]]
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html </ref>
|-
|2005 Bram Stoker Award
|Fiction Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2005 Salon Book Award
|
|{{Won}}
|<ref> https://www.librarything.com/award/228/Salon-Book-Award </ref>
|-
|2006 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2006 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Some Zombie Contingency Plans''
|2005 Bram Stoker Award
|Long Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2006 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Monster''
|2006 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Great Divorce''
|2006 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18th Annual Collection)''
''(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)''
|2006 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (19th Annual Collection)''
''(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)''
|2007 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2007 [[British Fantasy Award]]
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet|Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet]]''
''(with Gavin Grant)''
|2007 Hugo Award
|Semiprozine
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Light''
|2008 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet''
|2008 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Constable of Abal''
|2008 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (20th Annual Collection)''
''(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)''
|2008 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Pretty Monsters''
|2009 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Pretty Monsters'' (Collection)
|2009 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2009 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Surfer''
|2009 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (21st Annual Collection)''
''(with Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant)''
|2009 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2009 World Fantasy Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Secret Identity''
|2010 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Cinderella Game''
|2010 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''The Summer People''
|2011 [[Shirley Jackson Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2012 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2013 [[O. Henry Award]]
|
|'''Juror Favorite'''
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories''
''(with Gavin Grant)''
|2012 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Valley of the Girls''
|2012 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Two Houses''
|2013 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2013 Shirley Jackson Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2013 </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''I Can See Right Through You''
|2015 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2015 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Monstrous Affections''
''(with Gavin Grant)''
|2015 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2015 World Fantasy Award
|Anthology
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Lady and the Fox''
|2015 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The New Boyfriend''
|2015 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''[[Get in Trouble]]''
|2016 [[Shirley Jackson Award]]
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2016 </ref>
|-
|2016 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2016 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
|
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2016 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2016 </ref>
|-
|2016 [[Indies Choice Book Awards]]
|Adult Fiction
|'''Honor'''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The Game of Smash and Recovery''
|2016 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2016 Theodore Sturgeon Award
|Short Science Fiction
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |
|2017 [[World Fantasy Special Award—Professional]] award
|Contributions to the Genre
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear''
|2020 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Skinder's Veil''
|2022 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |''White Cat, Black Dog''
|2023 [[Kirkus Prize]]
|Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2024 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2024 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2024 [[Chautauqua Prize]]
|
|{{Sho}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Prince Hat Underground''
|2024 World Fantasy Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2024 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Book of Love (Link novel)|The Book of Love]]''
|2025 [[Compton Crook Award]]
|
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> https://www.librarything.com/award/1412.2.0.2025/Compton-Crook-Award-Nominee-2025 </ref>
|-
|2025 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|}


* 2018: [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1017/ |title=Kelly Link - MacArthur Foundation |website=www.macfound.org}}</ref>
* 2023: Honorary degree from Smith College.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Speakers & Honorary Degrees {{!}} Smith College |url=https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/college-events/commencement/speakers-and-honorary-degrees-2023 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.smith.edu |language=en}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

===Books===
* ''Stranger Things Happen'': 2001 [[Salon.com|Salon Book of the Year]], ''[[The Village Voice]]'' favorite (available here [https://web.archive.org/web/20070220010942/http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/] as a free download, under a [[Creative Commons]] license)
* ''[[Magic for Beginners (short story collection)|Magic for Beginners]]'': 2006 [[Locus Award]] for Best Short Story Collection
* ''Pretty Monsters'': 2008 World Fantasy<ref>{{cite web |author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |access-date=February 4, 2011}}</ref> and Locus Award finalist.
* ''[[Get in Trouble]]'': 2016 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] finalist.
* ''White Cat, Black Dog: Stories'' (Random House, 2023)
* ''[[The Book of Love (Link novel)|The Book of Love]]'': 2024<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garrett |first=Yvonne C. |date=2024-07-29 |title=Kelly Link's The Book of Love {{!}} The Brooklyn Rail |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2024/03/books/Kelly-Links-The-Book-of-Love/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=brooklynrail.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gould |first=Emily |date=2024-02-22 |title=How Kelly Link Wrote a Very Good First Novel |url=https://www.thecut.com/article/interview-kelly-link-book-of-love.html |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The Cut |language=en}}</ref><ref name="u585">{{cite web |last=Iglesias |first=Gabino |date=2024-02-15 |title=Kelly Link's debut novel 'The Book of Love' is magical, confusing, heartfelt, strange |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231331761/kelly-link-debut-novel-the-book-of-love-review |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=NPR}}</ref><ref name="c658">{{cite web |last=El-Mohtar |first=Amal |date=2024-02-12 |title=Book Review: 'The Book of Love,' by Kelly Link |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/books/review/kelly-link-the-book-of-love.html |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

===Selected stories (award winners)===

* "The Game of Smash and Recovery": 2016 [[Theodore Sturgeon Award]]
* "The Summer People": 2011 [[Shirley Jackson Award]] for Best Novelette, 2013 [[O. Henry Award|The O. Henry Prize Stories]]
* "Pretty Monsters": 2009 [[Locus Award for Best Novella]]
* "[[Magic for Beginners (novella)|Magic for Beginners]]": 2005 [[Nebula Award for Best Novella]]
* "[[The Faery Handbag]]": 2005 [[Hugo Award for Best Novelette|Hugo]] and [[Nebula Award for Best Novelette|Nebula]] Award for Best Novelette, [[Locus Award for Best Novelette|Locus Award]] winner
* "Stone Animals": 2005 ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''
* "Louise's Ghost": 2001 [[Nebula Award for Best Novelette]]
* "The Specialist's Hat": 1999 [[World Fantasy Award]]
* "Travels with the Snow Queen": 1997 [[Otherwise Award|James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]

==As author==
*''4 Stories'' ([[chapbook]]), [[Small Beer Press]], 2000
*''Stranger Things Happen'', Small Beer Press, 2001
*''Magic for Beginners'', Small Beer Press, 2005 (reprinted by Harcourt, 2005)
*''Catskin: a swaddled zine'', Jelly Ink Press, date unknown
*''Pretty Monsters: Stories'', [[Viking Press|Viking Juvenile]], 2008
*''The Wrong Grave'', 2009
*''[[Get in Trouble|Get in Trouble: Stories]]'', [[Random House]], 2015
* ''White Cat, Black Dog: Stories'', Random House, 2023<ref>{{Cite web |title=White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704687/white-cat-black-dog-by-kelly-link/ |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=Penguin Random House |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''The Book of Love'', Random House, 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Book of Love by Kelly Link |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/ |access-date=October 11, 2023 |website=Penguin Random House |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=El-Mohtar |first=Amal |date=2024-02-12 |title=Kelly Link Returns with a Dreamlike, Profoundly Beautiful Novel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/books/review/kelly-link-the-book-of-love.html |access-date=2024-03-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Link |first=Kelly |date=2024-02-16 |title=Novelist Kelly Link: 'I was drawn to the monsters and half-naked women on fantasy covers' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/16/novelist-kelly-link-i-was-drawn-to-the-monsters-and-half-naked-women-on-fantasy-covers |access-date=2024-03-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kelly Link's debut novel 'The Book of Love' is magical, confusing, heartfelt, strange |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231331761/kelly-link-debut-novel-the-book-of-love-review |website=NPR|date=February 15, 2024 |last1=Iglesias |first1=Gabino }}</ref>

==As editor==
*''Trampoline''  Small Beer Press, 2003
* ''The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Volumes 17 - 21'' (from 2004-2008) (with [[Ellen Datlow]] and Gavin J. Grant)
* ''Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories'' (2011) (with Gavin J. Grant)
* ''Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales'' (2014) (with Gavin J. Grant)

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==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
*[http://www.kellylink.net/   Official website]
*[http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/ Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet]
*{{isfdb name|id=Kelly_Link|name=Kelly Link}}
*Kelly Link's [http://www.sfadb.com/Kelly_Link awards and nominations] at the Science Fiction Awards Database
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051125045740/http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/va-link/ Essay] on Link's story "Lull" at Fantastic Metropolis
*[http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=1/5/06&tmplt_type=Show RealAudio Interview] from KCRW's Bookworm show
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070404000859/http://www.apublicspace.org/issue1/link.shtml An excerpt from Origin Story] from the magazine ''[[A Public Space]]''
*[http://mainehumanities.org/podcasts/stonecoast.html Reading by Kelly from the Stonecoast MFA program's Winter 2008 residency] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924151840/https://mainehumanities.org/podcasts/stonecoast.html |date=September 24, 2018 }}
{{James Tiptree, Jr. Award Winners}}
{{Locus Award Best Novella}}
{{Nebula Award Best Novella}}
{{Nebula Award Best Novelette}}
{{World Fantasy Award Best Anthology}}
{{World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction}}
{{World Fantasy Special Award Professional}}
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