Terri Windling

Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958, in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.

In 2010, Windling received the SFWA Solstice Award, which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field". Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

Early life Terri Windling was born on December 3, 1958, in Fort Dix, New Jersey. She was raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She attended Antioch College, graduating in 1979.

After college, she moved to New York and worked in publishing as an editor and an artist.

Career

Writing In the American publishing field, Windling has been one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s, through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines and as the editor of more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction. She created the Fairy Tale Series of novels that reinterpret classic fairy tales. She is also recognized as one of the founders of urban fantasy, having published and promoted the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the genre.

With Ellen Datlow, Windling edited 16 volumes of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (1986–2003), an anthology that reached beyond the boundaries of genre fantasy to incorporate magic realism, surrealism, poetry, and other forms of magical literature. Datlow and Windling also edited the Snow White, Blood Red series of literary fairy tales for adult readers, as well as many anthologies of myth & fairy tale inspired fiction for younger readers, such as The Green Man, The Faery Reel, and The Wolf at the Door. Windling also created and edited the Borderland series for teenage readers, and The Armless Maiden, a fiction collection intended for adult survivors of child abuse like herself.

As an author, Windling's fiction includes The Wood Wife (1996), winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, and several children's books: The Raven Queen, The Changeling, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, The Winter Child, and The Faeries of Spring Cottage. Her essays on myth, folklore, magical literature and art have been widely published in newsstand magazines, academic journals, art books, and anthologies. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes.

In May 2016, Windling gave the fourth annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, speaking on the topic of fantasy literature in the post-Tolkien era.

In 2020, she announced the establishment of a publishing company, Bumblehill Press.

Art As an artist, Windling specializes in work inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her art has been exhibited across the US, as well as in the UK and France.

Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, an organization dedicated to myth-inspired arts, and was the co-editor with Midori Snyder of The Journal of Mythic Arts from 1987 until it ceased publication in 2008. She also sits on the board of the Mythic Imagination Institute.

Personal life In September 2008, Windling married Howard Gayton, a British dramatist and co-founder of the Ophaboom Theatre Company, a Commedia dell'arte troupe. Since the early 1990s she has resided in Devon, England; she divided her time between there and Tucson, Arizona, for many years.

Windling is a close friend and neighbor of artists Wendy and Brian Froud, and has collaborated with them on several projects.

Works

Fiction "The Green Children", The Armless Maiden, Tor Books, 1995 The Wood Wife, Tor Books, 1996 "The Color of Angels", The Horns of Elfland, New American Library, 1997 The Raven Queen, with Ellen Steiber, Random House, 1999 The Changeling, Random House, 1995 The Old Oak Wood Series, Simon & Schuster, illustrated by Wendy Froud A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, 1999 The Winter Child, 2000 The Faeries of Spring Cottage, 2001 "Red Rock", Century Magazine, 2000 The Moon Wife, Tor Books, forthcoming Little Owl, Viking, forthcoming

Nonfiction "Surviving Childhood", The Armless Maiden, Tor Books, 1995 "Transformations", Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Expanded Edition), Anchor, 1998 Co-writer and editor of Brian Froud's Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, Simon & Schuster, 2000 "On Tolkien and Fairy Stories", Meditations on Middle-Earth, St. Martin's Press, 2001 Contributing writer to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002 Contributing writer to Fées, elfes, dragons & autres créatures des royaumes de féerie, edited by Claudine Glot and Michel Le Bris, Hoëbeke, France, 2004 Contributing writer to Panorama illustré de la fantasy & du merveilleux, edited by André-François Ruaud, Les Moutons Electriques, France 2004 Numerous articles on myth and mythic arts for Realms of Fantasy magazine and the Journal of Mythic Arts, 1992–2008

Anthologies Elsewhere, Volumes I–III, edited with Mark Alan Arnold, Ace Books, 1981–1983 Faery, Ace Books, 1985 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, with Ellen Datlow, 1986–2003 (winner of three World Fantasy Awards and the Bram Stoker Award) Snow White, Blood Red series, with Ellen Datlow Snow White, Blood Red, Morrow/Avon, 1993 Black Thorn, White Rose, Morrow/Avon, 1994; Prime Books, 2007 Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, Morrow/Avon, 1995; Prime Books 2008 Black Swan, White Raven, Avon Books, 1997; Prime Books, 2008 Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Avon Books, 1999 Black Heart, Ivory Bones, Avon Books, 2000 Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Ellen Datlow, HarperPrism, 1998; Avon, 2002 The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Tor Books, 1995 Retold Fairy Tales series, with Ellen Datlow (for Middle Grade readers) A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, Simon & Schuster, 2000 Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Simon & Schuster, 2002 Troll's Eye View and Other Villainous Tales, Viking, 2009 Mythic Fiction series, with Ellen Datlow, illustrated by Charles Vess (for Young Adult readers) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Viking, 2002 The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm, Viking, 2004 The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking, 2007 The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, Viking, 2010 Salon Fantastique with Ellen Datlow, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006 Teeth with Ellen Datlow, HarperCollins, 2011 After with Ellen Datlow, Disney/Hyperion, forthcoming 2012 Queen Victoria's Book of Spells with Ellen Datlow, Tor Books, forthcoming 2013

Series edited

Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.Elsewhere (with Mark Alan Arnold)1982 World Fantasy AwardCollection1982 Locus AwardAnthology 1982 Balrog AwardCollection/Anthology Elsewhere, Vol. II (with Mark Alan Arnold)1983 Balrog AwardCollection/Anthology 1983 Locus AwardAnthology Faery!1985 Locus AwardAnthology 1986 World Fantasy AwardCollectionElsewhere, Vol. III (with Ellen Datlow)1994 World Fantasy AwardAnthology1994 Locus AwardAnthology Black Thorn, White Rose (with Ellen Datlow)1998 Locus AwardAnthology Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Ellen Datlow)1998 International Horror Guild AwardAnthology Silver Birch, Blood Moon (with Ellen Datlow)2000 World Fantasy AwardAnthology2000 Locus AwardAnthology "The King with Three Daughters" (with Ellen Datlow)2001 Ditmar AwardShort FictionBlack Heart, Ivory Bones (with Ellen Datlow)2001 Locus AwardAnthology A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (with Ellen Datlow)2001 Locus AwardAnthology 2002 Utah Beehive Book AwardYoung Adult The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (with Ellen Datlow)2003 World Fantasy AwardAnthology2003 Locus AwardAnthology Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (with Ellen Datlow)2004 Locus AwardYoung Adult Book The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (with Ellen Datlow)2005 World Fantasy AwardAnthology2005 Locus AwardYoung Adult Book Salon Fantastique (with Ellen Datlow)2007 World Fantasy AwardAnthology2007 Locus AwardAnthology The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (with Ellen Datlow)2008 World Fantasy AwardAnthology2008 Locus AwardAnthology Endicott Studios Website (with Midori Snyder)2008 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professionalTroll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (with Ellen Datlow)2010 Locus AwardAnthology 2013 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardAnthologyThe Beastly Bride (with Ellen Datlow)2011 Locus AwardAnthology Teeth: Vampire Tales (with Ellen Datlow)2011 Shirley Jackson AwardAnthology 2012 Locus AwardAnthology After (with Ellen Datlow)2013 Locus AwardAnthology Queen Victoria's Book of Spells