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Kelly Link

USA  (1969 - )
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About Kelly Link
Kelly Link's story "Travels with the Snow Queen" won the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1997. Her story "The Specialist's Hat" won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She once won a free trip around the world. She co-edits the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. She currently lives in Brooklyn. Stranger Things Happen is her first collection of stories.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008
21st Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 21)

Pretty Monsters
Pretty Monsters

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008
21st Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 21)

Anthology series
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17th Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighteenth Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19th Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 20th Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
 
Anthologies edited
Trampoline: An AnthologyThe Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
 
Anthologies containing stories by Kelly Link
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume TenThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual CollectionA Wolf At the DoorThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection
 
Short stories
Travels with the Snow Queen (1997)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Specialist's Hat (1998)World Fantasy
The Girl Detective (1999)
Swans (2000)


Awards
World Fantasy Best Short story winner (1999) : The Specialist's Hat
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1999) : Travels with the Snow Queen
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2002) : Stranger Things Happen
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2006) : Magic for Beginners


Links to other websites
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Kelly Link recommends
The Truth about Celia
The Truth about Celia (2003)
Kevin Brockmeier
"Imagine I'm standing beside you in the bookstore. I'm putting this book in your hands. I loved The Truth About Celia: you should buy this book, take it home, and read it at once."
Mortal Love
Mortal Love (2004)
Elizabeth Hand
"You don’t so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe."
The Keeper
The Keeper (2006)
Sarah Langan
"THE KEEPER kept me up, late into the night...I'm hoping for a whole shelf of novels by Langan. "
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (2008)
(Armitage Family)
Joan Aiken
"The best kind of writer, strange and spooky and surprising, never sentimental or whimsical."



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