Kelly Link

writer

Kelly Link is the author of the bestselling short story collections *Magic for Beginners*, *Stranger Things Happen*, and *Pretty Monsters*, which *The New Statesman* calls “A unique brew of pirates and wizards, undead babysitters and dueling librarians, Kelly Link’s new short-story collection is dark, sexy and hilarious.” Her stories have won Nebula Awards, a Hugo Award, a Locus Award, and a World Fantasy Award, and she has contributed to numerous anthologies including *Holly Black* and *Cecil Castellucci’s Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd*, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s *Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales*, and the new collection of original fairy tales *My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me*, edited by Kate Bernheimer. Link is co-founder and co-editor of Small Beer Press and of the zine *Lady Churchill Rosebud's Wristlet*, which publishes work by new writers, experimental fiction and comics.