Kelly Link

Link is a graduate of Columbia University and of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.

She and her husband, Gavin Grant, manage Small Beer Press, a publisher based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Small Beer Press has an imprint for intermediate readers called Big Mouth House. Link and Grant co-edit the literary zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, published by Small Beer Press. They also co-edited St. Martin's Press's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. Link was previously the slush reader for Sci Fiction.

In 2019, Link and Grant opened Book Moon, an independent bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series during the 2005-2006 semester. She has taught at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Cleveland State University, the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Clarion West Writers Workshop.

In 2018, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. She was a professor at Smith College, where she was the Elizabeth Drew Professor of English Language and Literature. She received an honorary degree from Smith College in 2023.

In 2024, Random House published Link's first novel, The Book of Love.