Kelly Link è una autrice molto apprezzata, nota principalmente per i suoi lavori di fiction letteraria, fantasy generale, fantasy per giovani adulti e horror. La sua scrittura spazia in vari generi, con una particolare attenzione per il realismo magico, il fantasy e l'horror. I racconti di Link hanno ottenuto un riconoscimento significativo, guadagnandole diversi premi come il World Fantasy Award, il Nebula Award e il James Tiptree Jr. Award.
Diploma di laurea presso la Columbia University, Link ha successivamente pubblicato quattro raccolte di suoi racconti, tra cui "Stranger Things Happen", "Magic for Beginners", "Pretty Monsters" e "Get in Trouble". Queste raccolte hanno ricevuto recensioni positive da parte della critica e sono apparse in numerose liste dei migliori libri dell'anno su pubblicazioni come Time Magazine, Salon e The Capitol Times.
Oltre al suo lavoro come autrice, Link è anche una editor affermata. Insieme al marito, Gavin Grant, ha fondato la casa editrice indipendente Small Beer Press, che si concentra sulla pubblicazione di fiction letteraria e fantasy. Inoltre, ha ricoperto la carica di editrice per l'Online Writing Workshop ed è stata lettrice e giudice per vari premi letterari. Insieme a Gavin J. Grant ed Ellen Datlow, Link edita "The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror" (St. Martin's Press) e ha anche curato l'antologia "Trampoline".
Link ha dato un contributo significativo al mondo letterario, visitando numerose scuole e workshop e condividendo la sua competenza e le sue intuizioni con scrittori emergenti. Ha insegnato in varie istituzioni, tra cui Stonecoast nel Maine, l'Università di Washington, Yale, Bard College, Brookdale Community College, Lenoir-Rhyne College e i Clarion Workshops negli Stati Uniti e in Australia. Kelly Link ha conseguito la laurea presso la Columbia University e il Master presso l'Università della Carolina del Nord a Greensboro. Attualmente risiede a Northampton, MA.
Romanzi singoli
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The Book of Love
2024
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Travels with the Snow Queen
1996
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The Specialist's Hat
1998
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Shoe and Marriage
2000
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The Faery Handbag
2004
5
The Hortlak
2005
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Stone Animals
2012
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The Summer People
2015
Collezioni
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Stranger Things Happen
2001
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Magic for Beginners
2005
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Pretty Monsters
2005
4
Get in Trouble
2015
5
White Cat, Black Dog
2023
Ghosts of the Shadow Market Books
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Son of the Dawn
2018
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Cast Long Shadows
2018
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Every Exquisite Thing
2018
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Learn About Loss
2018
5
A Deeper Love
2018
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The Wicked Ones
2018
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The Land I Lost
2018
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Through Blood, Through Fire
2018
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Books
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12
2003
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13
2003
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14
2003
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15
2005
5
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16
2005
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17
2005
7
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20
2007
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21
2007
9
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22
2008
10
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23
2008
11
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24
2009
12
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25
2009
13
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 December 2010
2010
14
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27
2011
15
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30
2013
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31
2014
17
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33
2015
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34
2016
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36
2017
20
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37
2018
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38
2018
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42
2020
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45
2022
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43
2023
The WisCon Chronicles Books
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The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future
2008
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The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF
2009
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The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4
2010
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The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5
2011
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The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom
2012
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The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives
2013
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The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9
2015
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The WisCon Chronicles 11
2017
Kelly Link Anthologies
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10
1999
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Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001
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Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13
2002
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Fifteenth Annual Collection
2002
5
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14
2003
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The Dark: New Ghost Stories
2003
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Trampoline
2003
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Sixteenth Annual Collection
2003
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Seventeenth Annual Collection
2004
10
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
2004
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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
2005
12
Best New Horror 16
2005
13
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition
2006
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Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006
15
Best New Fantasy
2006
16
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
2007
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Nebula Awards 41 (2007)
2007
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2007
2007
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The Restless Dead
2007
20
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
2007
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Best American Fantasy
2007
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Twentieth Annual Collection
2007
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Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
2008
24
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future
2008
25
Twenty-First Annual Collection
2008
26
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
2009
27
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
2009
28
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF
2009
29
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
2009
30
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
2010
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The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4
2010
32
Bloody Fabulous
2010
33
Sympathy for the Devil
2010
34
The Living Dead 2
2010
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
2010
36
Happily Ever After
2011
37
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5
2011
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Fantasy Magazine, July 2011
2011
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
2011
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Z: Zombie Stories
2011
41
Monsters of Literary Sightings
2012
42
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful
2012
43
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom
2012
44
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
2012
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2012
46
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
2012
47
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013
2013
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Super Stories of Heroes and Villains
2013
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Superheroes
2013
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The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives
2013
51
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013
2013
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine
2014
53
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales
2014
54
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014
2014
55
My True Love Gave to Me
2014
56
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9
2015
57
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
2015
58
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015
2015
59
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
2016
60
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
2017
61
The WisCon Chronicles 11
2017
62
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore
2017
63
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan - Volume 5
2018
64
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Volume 6
2018
65
Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World
2018
66
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
2019
67
Edited By
2020
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Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century