Award-winning contributors Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry will give a reading on Monday, March 3 at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, followed by a Q&A. The event, which is presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s Bard course on innovative contemporary fiction and is cosponsored by Conjunctions, is free and open to the public.

Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press), Magic for Beginners (Random House), Pretty Monsters (Speak), Get in Trouble, and White Cat, Black Dog, as well as the novel The Book of Love (all Random House). Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a World Fantasy Award, Nebula Award, and Hugo Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She is the owner of Book Moon, an independent bookshop in Easthampton, MA.

Jedediah Berry’s new novel, The Naming Song (Tor Books), is a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His first novel, The Manual of Detection (Penguin Press), won the Crawford Award and the Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio 4. His story in cards, The Family Arcana (Ninepin Press), was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award. With Andrew McAlpine, he co-wrote the Ennie Award-winning tabletop adventure game setting, The Valley of Flowers (Phantom Mill Games). With his partner Emily Houk, he runs Ninepin Press, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and games in unusual shapes. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

Praise for Kelly Link

“What more can be said about Kelly Link, that has not been (breathlessly) said already? She is a sorcerer. She is our greatest living fabulist. There is no one like her.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

“The wonders of Hollywood special effects feel like garish imitations next to Link’s sorcery.” —The Washington Post

Praise for Jedediah Berry

“Jedediah Berry’s The Naming Song brings the reader as close to magic as they are likely to ever get. Berry, like Ursula K. Le Guin, Iain M. Banks, or John Crowley picks up words at a different angle . . . and brings a whole new world to light. Every page is play.”

―Gavin Grant, Book Moon Books

“The Naming Song is not just one of the best told fantasy novels of the last twenty-five years, it is a masterpiece of storytelling destined to be extolled as a classic.”

―Howard Andrew Jones, author of Lord of a Shattered Land