Terri Windling

Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and critic. Aside from her own writing, she is well known for editing numerous anthologies of fairy tales and for promoting the mythic fiction genre in her editing. her own writing. She founded the Endicott Studio, and co-edits with Midori Snyder the Journal of Mythic Arts (from the Endicott Studio).

Biography

• attended Antioch University in Ohio
• Editor for Ace Books, 1979-1986, hired by Jim Baen. Brought in new writers Charles de Lint; Sheri S. Tepper; Patricia C. Wrede; Steven Brust; Emma Bull; Will Shetterly; Pamela Dean; Delia Sherman; Megan Lindholm; Midori Snyder; and Gregory Frost. Encouraged numerous other fantasy writers to expand their works. Changed the look of the fantasy art used, significantly affecting the depictions of women in fantasy art.
• Armadillo Press, 1985-86.
• Consulting editor for Tor Books, 1986-present.
• Beginning 1986 through 2003, edited with Ellen Datlow the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press)
• Founded The Endicott Studio, 1987
• Founded, with Sheila Berry, a studio group for women artists in Boston

Works

Fiction

• The Wood Wife (1996 novel) (winner, Mythopoeic Award)
• "The Color of Angels" (1997 novella; loosely related to The Wood Wife)
• The Moon Wife (forthcoming)
• The Raven Queen
• The Changeling
• A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale
• The Winter Child
• The Faeries of Spring Cottage
• "Red Rock" (2000; Century Magazine)

Edited works

• The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (Tor, 1995) (1995 James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist)
• Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series (1988-2003; edited with Ellen Datlow); 3 World Fantasy Awards; the Bram Stoker Award; several other nominations. Series continues under the editorship of Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, with Ellen Datlow.
• Snow White, Blood Red series with Ellen Datlow
  • • Snow White, Blood Red, Morrow/Avon, 1993
    • Black Thorn, White Rose, Morrow/Avon, 1994, reissued in trade paperback by Prime Books in May 2007
    • Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, AvoNova/Morrow, 1995
    • Black Swan, White Raven, Avon Books, 1997
    • Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Avon Books, 1999
    • Black Heart, Ivory Bones, Avon Books, 2000
• A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, with Ellen Datlow, Simon & Schuster, 2000
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, with Ellen Datlow, Viking, 2002(Also in Hardcover)
• The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm, with Ellen Datlow, Viking, (August 2004)
• The Borderlands series. a shared-world series featuring the intersection between Elfland and human lands, generally populated by teenagers, runaways, and exiles.
• The Fairy Tale series (1986 to present; a series of novels that retell and reinterpret traditioanl fairy tales, featuring Steven Brust, Charles DeLint, Jane Yolen, and many others)
• Brian Froud's Faerielands (1994)
• Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold with Ellen Datlow; sequel to A Wolf at the Door; 8-12yo fairy tale anthology)
• Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Ellen Datlow, HarperPrism, 1998; reissued in mass market paperback by Avon for the first time, Fall 2002
• Salon Fantastique with Ellen Datlow, Thunder's Mouth Press, (October 2006)
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, with Ellen Datlow, Viking (summer, 2007)

Awards

• Mythopoeic Award for The Wood Wife
• World Fantasy Awards
• Bram Stoker Award
• Short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for The Armless Maiden

References

• Terri Windling: A Bibliography Publishing Chronology by Patrick Kimball, at Endicott Studio

External Links

• The Endicott Studio