Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant edited the acclaimed Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories. They also started a zine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, in 1996, founded an independent publishing house, Small Beer Press, in 2000, and own two letterpresses (in various stages of assembly). They edited the fantasy half of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for five years, and in 2007 they published The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

Kelly Link is the author of three acclaimed short story collections, Stranger Things Happen (a Salon Book of the Year), Magic for Beginners (a Time Magazine Best Book of the Year), and a collection for young adults, Pretty Monsters. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies The Faery Reel, The Restless Dead, The Starry Rift, The Best American Short Stories, Poe’s Children, McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, and Firebirds Rising, and have won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Tiptree, British Science Fiction, and World Fantasy Awards. She worked for three years at a children’s bookshop in North Carolina and for five years at Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop in Boston, and has always loved reading anthologies. Some of her favorites include those edited by Helen Hoke.

Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant moved to the United States in 1991. He worked in bookshops in Los Angeles and Boston, and while in Brooklyn, worked for BookSense.com. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Bookslut, and Time Out New York, and is still a zine reviewer for Xerography Debt. His stories have been published in Strange Horizons, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, 3:AM Magazine, and The Third Alternative, and have been reprinted in Best New Fantasy and Year’s Best Fantasy.

Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link and their daughter, Ursula, live (and work on) an old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.