2016 National Book Festival

Sep 24, 2016—11:00 am

Kelly will be at the following events at the National Book Festival:

Presentation

  • Poetry & Prose
    Saturday, September 24
    11:00 am – 11:45 am

Book Signing

  • Saturday, September 24
    12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Kelly Link is a prolific short story writer, award-wining author and editor of fantasy, horror and magic realism works. She has received a Hugo, several Nebulas, a James Tiptree Jr. Award and a World Fantasy Award. Link has published and edited numerous anthologies, and her work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Her books include “Stranger Things Happen,” “Magic for Beginners” and “Pretty Monsters.” Her latest collection of stories, “Get in Trouble: Stories” (Random House), is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and features nine stories which immerse readers in unique and unforgettable worlds. In “The Summer People” a young girl serves as a caretaker to mysterious residents of the cottage behind her house; in “I Can See Right Through You” a middle-aged movie star takes a trip to Florida where his love interest is participating in a ghost-hunting reality show; in “The New Boyfriend” a teenage girl receives a life-size animated doll for a birthday present. Link lives with her family in Massachusetts.