Kelly Link

Kelly Link is an American short story writer known for genre-blurring fiction that combines literary fiction technique with fantasy, horror, and fairy-tale elements, recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize finalist nod for her collection Get in Trouble. Link co-founded Small Beer Press with her husband Gavin J. Grant, a small independent publisher known for championing distinctive short fiction and genre-crossing work outside the mainstream publishing system. Link contributed to the Shadowhunter short fiction anthologies within Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles universe, joining a group of established authors invited to write original short stories set within Clare's world, published across companion collections that supplement her main novel sequences. Link's own body of work is more frequently associated with literary and small-press short fiction than with mass-market franchise writing, making her contribution to the Shadowhunter anthologies a notable crossover between literary short fiction and commercial YA franchise publishing. She continues to write and publish independently while running Small Beer Press, and remains one of the most critically respected short story writers working in speculative fiction today.