Kelly Link biography
Kelly Link’s stories have won three Nebula awards, a Hugo and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question, ‘Why do you want to go around the world?’ (‘Because you can’t go through it.’)
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.
Kelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
Her website is www.kellylink.net.
Kelly Link books
- Stranger Things Happen (2001)
- Magic For Beginners (2005)
- Pretty Monsters (2008)
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Tender Morsels and The Shadow Year share World Fantasy Award
Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels and Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year were named joint winners of the World Fantasy award for best novel.
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The World Fantasy Award nominations have now been announced. Good luck to all participants.
Best Novel
The House of the Stag, Kage Baker
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Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
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Uncle Cha [...]
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