**Kelly Link *is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,and Pretty Monsters *. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Monstrous Affection...

**Kelly Link *is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,and Pretty Monsters *. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Her short stories have been published in * The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories,and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards *. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.