Fiction: Kelly Link and Shelley Jackson

Kelly Link's debut collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Firecracker nominee, a Village Voice Favorite Book and a Salon Book of the Year. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, the James Tiptree Jr., and the World Fantasy Awards.

Her second collection, Magic for Beginners, was published in July 2005. It was Book Sense pick (and a Best of Book Sense 2005 pick); and selected for best of the year lists by Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Capitol Times. She reads from her collection: Magic for Beginners.

"...an alchemical mixture of Borges, Raymond Chandler, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." - Salon

Shelley Jackson was born in the Philippines, grew up in Berkeley, studied art at Stanford and writing at Brown, and now lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of the "classic" Patchwork Girl (Eastgate 1995), a hypertext novel. Her story collection, The Melancholy of Anatomy, has just been published by Anchor Books. She reads from her novel: Half Life.

Jackson's prose is nothing short of dazzling, but it's still not enough to give real tension to her oddball plot. – Publishers Weekly

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Suzanne Dottino

Fiction Curator

Suzanne@KGBBAR.COM