Kelly Link

Author of Magic for Beginners

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About the Author

Kelly Link is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Kelly Link, Kelly Link, Kelly ed. Link, Kelly Link ed.

Image credit: By Cory Doctorow from London, UK - Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, Hayakawa reception, Tokyo, Japan.JPG, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4168381

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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Works by Kelly Link

Popular Recent

Magic for Beginners (2002) 2,377 copies

Stranger Things Happen: Stories (2001) 1,693 copies

Pretty Monsters: Stories (2008) 1,218 copies

Get in Trouble: Stories (2015) 1,149 copies

Ghosts of the Shadow Market (10-in-1) (2019) 861 copies

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) — Editor & Contributor — 697 copies

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories (2023) 313 copies

Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (2014) — Editor & Contributor — 255 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Editor; Editor — 238 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Editor; Contributor — 232 copies

The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007) — Editor; Contributor — 224 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Editor — 223 copies

The Book of Love (2024) 213 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (2007) — Editor — 211 copies

Trampoline: An Anthology (2003) — Editor — 169 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Editor — 168 copies

The Wrong Grave [subset 1 of 2] (2009) 27 copies

Stone Animals (2004) 26 copies

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 (2017) — Judge — 22 copies

The Faery Handbag (2004) 22 copies

Catskin (2003) 19 copies

Learn About Loss (2018) 17 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 26 (2011) — Editor — 17 copies

Origin Stories (2012) 16 copies

Pretty Monsters [subset 2 of 2] (2010) 15 copies

The Specialist's Hat {short story} (1998) 15 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 (2006) — Editor — 15 copies

Magic for Beginners [novella] (2005) 14 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 (2013) — Editor — 13 copies

I Don’t Know the Author or the Title But It’s Red And It Has 3 Zombie Stories In It 12 copies

Louise's Ghost 11 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 (2011) — Editor — 11 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 (2014) — Editor — 10 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 32 (2015) — Editor — 9 copies

The Summer People (2015) 9 copies

Some Zombie Contingency Plans (2005) 9 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 (2015) — Editor — 9 copies

The Hortlak (2003) 9 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 (2008) — Editor — 9 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 (2013) — Editor — 8 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 (2008) — Editor — 8 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 (2012) — Editor — 8 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 (2008) — Editor — 8 copies

Most Of My Friends Are Two-thirds Water 7 copies

Lull (2002) 7 copies

Travels with the Snow Queen 7 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 (2009) — Editor — 7 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 (2007) — Editor — 7 copies

The Girl Detective 7 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 (2003) — Editor — 6 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 (2005) — Editor — 6 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 (2014) — Editor — 6 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 35 (2016) — Editor — 6 copies

The Cinderella Game [Short Story] 6 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 (2004) — Editor — 6 copies

Monster 6 copies

The Wrong Grave 6 copies

4 Stories 5 copies

The Constable of Abal 5 copies

Flying Lessons 5 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 (2017) — Editor — 5 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 (2016) — Editor — 5 copies

Vanishing Act 5 copies

Valley of the Girls 5 copies

Shoe And Marriage 5 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 — Editor — 5 copies

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 4 copies

Survivor's Ball Or The Donner Party 4 copies

The Wizards of Perfil {short story} (2006) 4 copies

Water Off A Black Dog's Back 4 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 (2018) — Editor — 4 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 11 (2002) — Editor — 4 copies

The Cannon [short story] (2003) 4 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 — Editor — 4 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 39 (2019) — Editor — 3 copies

The Great Divorce {short story} (2005) 3 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 (2018) — Editor — 3 copies

Light 3 copies

The Wrong Grave [short story] (1970) 3 copies

2 Creepy Stories 3 copies

Sea, Ship, Mountain, Sky 3 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 — Editor — 3 copies

The game of smash and recovery (short story) 3 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 — Editor — 3 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 40 (2019) — Editor — 3 copies

The Book of Love 2 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 41 (2020) — Editor — 2 copies

Origin Story 2 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 7 — Editor — 2 copies

The Surfer 2 copies

3 Zombie Stories 2 copies

I Can See Right Through You [novelette] 2 copies

Pretty Monsters [short story] 2 copies

Secret Identity [novelette] 2 copies

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 (2020) — Editor — 2 copies

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 1 copy

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 10 — Editor — 1 copy

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 9 (1901) — Editor — 1 copy

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 8 — Editor — 1 copy

GIGAMESH 37 (2004) 1 copy

The Lesson [short story] 1 copy

Two Houses [novelette] 1 copy

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 47 1 copy

Pasan Cosas Extrañas 1 copy

The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear [short story] 1 copy

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 46 (2023) 1 copy

The Lost World (Ghosts of the Shadow Market #9) 1 copy

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 (2022) — Editor — 1 copy

Like Water Off a Black Dog's Back (Short Story), The Girl Detective (Short Story) 1 copy

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 44 (2021) 1 copy

The New Boyfriend [novelette] 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) — Introduction, some editions — 5,552 copies

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2002) — Contributor — 1,475 copies

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd (2009) — Contributor — 1,148 copies

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004) — Contributor — 1,031 copies

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 989 copies

My True Love Gave to Me (2014) — Contributor — 948 copies

The Living Dead (2008) — Contributor — 920 copies

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 834 copies

A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000) — Contributor — 823 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 700 copies

Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) — Contributor — 678 copies

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Contributor — 661 copies

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (2007) — Contributor — 501 copies

Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Contributor — 461 copies

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader (2013) — Contributor — 412 copies

Shadow Show (2012) — Contributor — 366 copies

Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (2009) — Contributor — 349 copies

Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (2015) — Contributor — 342 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 334 copies

The Living Dead 2 (2010) — Contributor — 321 copies

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 311 copies

Happily Ever After (2011) — Contributor — 301 copies

Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Contributor — 285 copies

The Starry Rift (2008) — Contributor — 284 copies

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 268 copies

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 268 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 266 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Contributor — 266 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contributor — 249 copies

Other Worlds Than These (2012) — Contributor — 247 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributor — 232 copies

Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (2016) — Contributor — 226 copies

Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Contributor — 219 copies

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributor — 217 copies

The Way of the Wizard (2010) — Contributor — 208 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One (2007) — Contributor — 202 copies

The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural (2009) — Contributor — 201 copies

Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Contributor — 198 copies

The Apocalypse Reader (2007) — Contributor — 196 copies

The Dark (2003) — Contributor — 180 copies

The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories (2016) — Introduction — 175 copies

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) — Contributor — 175 copies

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 171 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two (2008) — Contributor — 168 copies

When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (2021) — Contributor — 168 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Contributor — 159 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Contributor — 145 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Contributor — 141 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven (2013) — Contributor — 141 copies

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) — Contributor — 129 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Contributor — 129 copies

Zombies: The Recent Dead (2010) — Contributor — 122 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 (2003) — Contributor — 118 copies

Witches: Wicked, Wild, and Wonderful (2012) — Contributor — 115 copies

Year's Best Fantasy 4 (2004) — Contributor — 113 copies

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020) — Contributor — 112 copies

Hauntings (2013) — Contributor — 112 copies

Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 108 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 Edition (2010) — Contributor — 107 copies

Best American Fantasy (2007) — Contributor — 106 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002) — Contributor — 103 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (2005) — Contributor — 100 copies

Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017) — Contributor — 96 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (2010) — Contributor — 94 copies

American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contributor — 92 copies

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 90 copies

The Dark of the Woods (2006) — Contributor — 89 copies

Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology (2017) — Contributor — 87 copies

Clockwork Fagin (2011) — Editor — 87 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 (1999) — Contributor — 83 copies

Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010) — Contributor — 81 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy… (2005) — Contributor — 81 copies

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (2022) — Contributor — 80 copies

The Best of Subterranean (2017) — Contributor — 75 copies

Fantasy: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Contributor — 75 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Contributor — 75 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition (2013) — Contributor — 72 copies

Year's Best Fantasy 6 (2006) — Contributor — 72 copies

The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (2015) — Contributor — 69 copies

Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) — Contributor — 68 copies

McSweeney's Issue 48 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2014) — Contributor — 66 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (2013) — Contributor — 65 copies

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (2008) — Contributor — 64 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Nine (2015) — Contributor — 63 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Contributor — 60 copies

Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2007) — Contributor — 56 copies

Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House (2011) — Contributor — 54 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten (2016) — Contributor — 52 copies

Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (2004) — Contributor — 52 copies

Best New Fantasy (2006) — Contributor — 47 copies

Best Short Novels 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 42 copies

Bloody Fabulous (2012) — Contributor — 40 copies

Edited By (2020) — Contributor — 37 copies

The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008) — Contributor — 25 copies

Super Stories of Heroes & Villains (2013) — Contributor — 24 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2020 Edition (2020) — Contributor — 22 copies

Best American Fantasy 2 (2009) — Contributor — 20 copies

Apex Magazine 50 (July 2013) (2013) — Contributor — 16 copies

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2019, Vol. 137, Nos. 3 & 4 (1991) — Contributor — 15 copies

Conjunctions: 67, Other Aliens (2016) — Contributor — 14 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 05 (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies

Uncanny Magazine Issue 11: July/August 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 10 copies

Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina (2019) — Contributor — 9 copies

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 62 • July 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 8 copies

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 67 • December 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies

Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 (2020) — Contributor — 6 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 06 (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies

Apex Magazine 61 (June 2014) (2014) — Contributor — 4 copies

Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century (Fairy-Tale Studies) (2021) — Contributor — 3 copies

Fantasy Magazine, Issue 52 (July 2011) (2011) — Contributor — 3 copies

Subterranean Magazine Summer 2011 — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1969-07-19
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA
Places of residence: Northhampton, Massachusetts, USA
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Education: Columbia University
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (MFA)
Occupations: teacher (writing)
editor
short story writer
Relationships: Grant, Gavin J. (partner)
Organizations: Small Beer Press
Awards and honors: MacArthur Fellowship (2018)

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THE DEEP ONES: "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link in The Weird Tradition (October 2023)

THE DEEP ONES: "Lull" by Kelly Link in The Weird Tradition (January 2023)

Reviews

The Book of Love: A Novel by Kelly Link

I don't know how to review a Kelly Link book. Things written by Kelly Link will make you scared and sad and glad to be a human. They will make you think and feel and want to stretch farther than you currently are, to be more than you currently are. They are too much and just enough. They remind you why it's good to be a human even while they're reminding you why it's so very hard to be a human.

This one has magic (they all have magic) and music (they don't all have music) and tigers (not a main plot point but worth a mention).… (more)

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g33kgrrl | 7 other reviews | May 7, 2024 |

Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link

I felt like these stories were trying to do something interesting and original, but then they didn't quite make it.

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amandrake | 53 other reviews | Apr 17, 2024 |

Get in trouble : stories by Kelly Link

This is a short story collection by an author with a startling imagination - trouble is my tastes & her imagination run on different tracks. I'm not a fan of magic, and so these were never going to be right up my street. Of the collection, the ones I enjoyed the most were The Summer People and The Two Houses. The former has a house populated by some "other" people taken care of by a school girl while the two houses is set on a spaceship heading to another planet when the crew are woken up for a party and tell ghost stories. What happened to the other ship and which of the two houses was the original mean that you're always left of balance. That's the sensation a lot of these stories give, a sense that the characters are not really in control. There are any number of parallel universes and odd creatures in here, but, to do the author credit, her mini worlds do seem self consistent, she plays fair with the characters and the stories they tell. If your tolerance for magic is higher than mine, you may well find this right up your street.… (more)

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Helenliz | 74 other reviews | Mar 24, 2024 |

The Book of Love: A Novel by Kelly Link

Read first 89 pages. I like the characters (sisters Laura and Susannah Hand, their neighbor Daniel Knowe, and classmate Mo) and the setup (Lovesend, MA, on a night when four people have returned from the dead), but it's moving very slowly and I don't have the patience for another 600 pages. Still love Kelly Link's short stories though.

Quotes

Every road ended here. (Daniel, 58)

It takes time, but you get used to things. You can get used to anything except for the things you don't know. The things you don't understand. (Mo's grandmother Maryanne, 78)… (more)

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JennyArch | 7 other reviews | Mar 11, 2024 |

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