I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

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

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

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.