My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.