This Monday's author is Kelly Link!

One of the panels we’re really looking forward next April is Stories of the Fantastic - we’ve already introduced you to one of the participants, Brenda Peynado, and today we’re excited to announce that Brenda will be joined by legendary writer, independent bookstore owner, and MacArthur genius award recipient, the one and only Kelly Link.

Kelly is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.