WRITER

Kelly Link

1969 - Today

Kelly Link

Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and writer. Mainly known as an author of short stories, she published her first novel The Book of Love in 2024. 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 literary fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kelly Link has received more than 192,967 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Kelly Link is the 7,210th most popular writer (down from 6,347th in 2019), the 17,888th most popular biography from United States (down from 15,226th in 2019) and the 1,184th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

190k
Page Views (PV)
29.45
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
18
Languages Editions (L)
2.14
Effective Languages (L*)
3.47
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Magic for beginners

2005

Stranger things happen

American Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, Short stories

2001

The best of Lady Churchill's rosebud wristlet

American literature

2007

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three

fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction

Exhalation / Ted Chiang -- Shoggoths in bloom / Elizabeth Bear -- Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel / Peter S. Beagle -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer -- The gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi -- The dust assassin / Ian McDonald -- Virgin / Holly Black -- Pride and Prometheus / John Kessel -- The thought war / Paul McAuley -- Beyond the sea gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix -- The small door / Holly Phillips -- Turing's apples / Stephen Baxter -- The New York Times at special bargain rates / Stephen King -- Five thrillers / Robert Reed -- The magician's house / Meghan McCarron -- Goblin music / Joan Aiken -- Machine maid / Margo Lanagan -- The art of alchemy / Ted Kosmatka -- 26 Monkeys, also The abyss / Kij Johnson -- Marry the sun / Rachel Swirsky -- Crystal nights / Greg Egan -- His master's voice / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Special economics / Maureen F. McHugh -- Evidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Rickert -- From Babel's fall'n glory we fled / Michael Swanwich -- If angels fight / Richard Bowes -- The doom of love in small spaces / Ken Scholes -- Pretty monsters / Kelly Link.

2009

Pretty Monsters

Science Fiction & Fantasy, American Short stories, Juvenile Fiction

Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!

2008

Firebirds Rising

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories

Charles de Lint. Alan Dean Foster. Diana Wynne Jones. Kelly Link. Patricia A. McKillip. Tamora Pierce. These are just a few of the acclaimed and bestselling authors who have contributed original stories to Firebirds Rising, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning anthology Firebirds.This collection takes readers from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. It is full of magic, humor, adventure, and—best of all—the unexpected. The one thing readers can count on is marvelous writing. Firebirds Rising proves once again that Firebird is more than an imprint—it is a gathering place for writers and readers of speculative fiction from teenage to adult, from the United States to Europe, Asia, and beyond.

2006

Page views of Kelly Links by language

Over the past year Kelly Link has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 33,577 views, followed by Spanish (2,044), and Japanese (1,141). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (104.27%), Swedish (59.23%), and English (55.24%)