Kelly Link
(1969 - )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.
Collections
Stranger Things Happen (2001)
Magic for Beginners (2005)
Pretty Monsters (2008)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Joe R Lansdale, Tim Lebbon and Kit Reed)
Get in Trouble (2015)
Magic for Beginners (2005)
Pretty Monsters (2008)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Joe R Lansdale, Tim Lebbon and Kit Reed)
Get in Trouble (2015)
Novellas
Anthology series
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (with Ellen Datlow and Gavin J Grant)
17. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17th Annual Collection (2004)
18. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 18th Annual Collection (2005)
19. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19th Annual Collection (2006)
20. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 20th Annual Collection (2007)
21. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 21st Annual Collection (2008)
17. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17th Annual Collection (2004)
18. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 18th Annual Collection (2005)
19. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19th Annual Collection (2006)
20. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 20th Annual Collection (2007)
21. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 21st Annual Collection (2008)
Anthologies edited
Trampoline (2003)
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007) (with Gavin J Grant)
Steampunk! (2011) (with Gavin J Grant)
Monstrous Affections (2014) (with J Patrick Black and Gavin J Grant)
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007) (with Gavin J Grant)
Steampunk! (2011) (with Gavin J Grant)
Monstrous Affections (2014) (with J Patrick Black and Gavin J Grant)
Anthologies containing stories by Kelly Link
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
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
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Kelly Link recommends
 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 (2004) Elizabeth Hand "You don't so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe." | 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 (2008) (Armitage Family) Joan Aiken "The best kind of writer, strange and spooky and surprising, never sentimental or whimsical." | The Lonely Hearts Hotel (2017) Heather O'Neill "A fairytale laced with gunpowder." | Things We Lost in the Fire (2017) Mariana Enríquez "These stories unsettle; they disturb; they disquiet. Read them!" | |
Broken River (2017) J Robert Lennon "J Robert Lennon is a master of the are dark arts." |  Hole in the Middle (2017) Kendra Fortmeyer "Dazzling!." |
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