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Kelly Link is an , 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 their own small press 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 is currently teaching at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina with the Visiting Writers Series for the spring semester of 2006. She 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 . Her story "Stone Animals" appeared in the 2005 edition of ''The Best American Short Stories''.

Link and Grant live in Northampton, Massachusetts .


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AS AUTHOR

  • ''4 Stories (chapbook)'' Small Beer Press, 2000

  • ''Stranger Things Happen'' Small Beer Press, 2001

  • ''Magic For Beginners'' Small Beer Press, 2005



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.


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