Education
Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the Master of Fine Arts program of University of North Carolina Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.
Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the Master of Fine Arts program of University of North Carolina Greensboro. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop.
While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. The couple"s imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House. They also co-edited Saint Martin"s Press"s Year"s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008.
(The couple inherited the "fantasy" side from Terri Windling in 2004) Link was also the slush reader for Sciences Fiction, edited by Datlow.
Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series for spring semester 2006. She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New New York
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey. The Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University.
New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Clarion East at Michigan State University. Clarion West in Seattle, Washington. And Smith College, near her home in Northampton.
She has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst"s Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers.
Trampoline Small Beer Press, 2003 The Year"s Best Fantasy and Horror volume 17– (with Ellen Datlow and Gavin J Grant) Saint Martin"s Press, 2004–2008 In addition, Link and Grant have edited a semiannual small press fantasy magazine: Lady Churchill"s Rosebud Wristlet (or LCRW) since 1997. An anthology, The Best of Lady Churchill"s Rosebud Wristlet, was published by Delegate Rey in 2007.
“The Summer People”: 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for best Novelette "Pretty Monsters": 2009 Locus Award for Best Novella "Magic for Beginners": 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella "The Faery Handbag": 2005 Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award winner "Stone Animals": 2005 Best American Short Stories "Louise"s Ghost": 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novelette "The Specialist"s Hat": 1999 World Fantasy Award "Travels with the Snow Queen": 1997 James Tiptree, Junior. Award "The Summer People": 2013 The O"Henry Prize Stories.
