She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts Clarion East at Michigan State University Clarion West in Seattle, Washington and Smith College, near her home in Northampton. Link taught at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, with the Visiting Writers Series for spring semester 2006. (The couple inherited the 'fantasy' side from Terri Windling in 2004.) Link also co-edits the literary magazine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and was the slush reader for Sci Fiction, edited by Datlow. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series with Ellen Datlow for five years, ending in 2008. The couple's imprint of Small Beer Press for intermediate readers is called Big Mouth House.

Link and husband Gavin Grant manage Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1995, she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. JSTOR ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.

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