Kelly Link was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on the East Coast. She attended Columbia University in New York and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She sold her first story, “Water Off a Black Dog’s Back,” just before attending Clarion in 1995. Her later stories have won or been nominated for the James Tiptree Jr., World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards.

Link’s stories have been collected in Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. She has edited the anthology Trampoline, co-edits The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror with husband Gavin J. Grant and Ellen Datlow, and co-edits the ‘zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet with Grant.  Her next book, Pretty Monsters, is a collection for younger readers.