Terri Windling

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

Biography

• attended Antioch University in Ohio
• Editor for Ace Books, 1979-1986 and hired by Jim Baen. Brought in new writers Charles de Lint; Ellen Kushner; Sheri S. Tepper; Patricia C. Wrede; Steven Brust; Emma Bull; Will Shetterly; Pamela Dean; Delia Sherman; Megan Lindholm; Midori Snyder; 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.
• Tor Books, 1986-present.
• Beginning 1986, edited with Ellen Datlow the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
• 1987, 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 other editorship.
• Snow White, Blood Red series
• The Wolf at the Door
• Swan Sister (2003; sequel to A Wolf at the Door; 8-12yo fairy tale anthology)
• The Green Man and Other Tales of the Mythic Forest ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2002)
• The Faery Reel
• The Borderland series
• The Fairy Tale series (1986 to present; a series of novels that retell and reinterpret traditioanl fairy tales)
• Brian Froud's Faerielands (1994)
• Sirens (1998; collection of erotic fantasy)

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

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