Terri Windling

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Terri Windling
Terri Windling.jpg
Photo portrait, 2008
Born (1958-12-03) December 3, 1958 (age 66)
Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
  • Editor
  • artist
  • essayist
  • author
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Antioch College
Website
windling.typepad.com

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.

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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. [1] She was raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [2] [3] She attended Antioch College, graduating in 1979. [4]

After college, she moved to New York and worked in publishing as an editor and an artist. [3] [5]

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 [6] 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. [7] [8]

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. [9] [10]

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. [11]

In 2020, she announced the establishment of a publishing company, Bumblehill Press. [4] [12]

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. [13] 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. [14] Since the early 1990s she has resided in Devon, England; [15] she divided her time between there and Tucson, Arizona, for many years. [16]

Windling is a close friend and neighbor of artists Wendy and Brian Froud, and has collaborated with them on several projects. [17] [18] [19]

Works

Fiction

Nonfiction

Anthologies

Series edited

The latter Young Adult shared-world series features the intersection of Elfland and human lands, which is generally populated by teenagers, runaways, and exiles. Primary series writers are Ellen Kushner, Charles de Lint, Midori Snyder, Emma Bull, and Will Shetterly. The series consists of five anthologies and three novels to date.[ when? ]

Awards

While many of Windling's literary awards have come from anthologies in partnership with Ellen Datlow, a few have also come from solo literary work.

Awards for the anthology The Year's Best Fantasy (and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror) annual collections 1-16 (with Ellen Datlow)
AwardAwards WonOnly Nominated
Bram Stoker Award 15
British Fantasy Award [20] [21] [22] 3
International Horror Guild Award [23] 1
Locus Award [24] 16
World Fantasy Award 38


WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Elsewhere

(with Mark Alan Arnold)

1982 World Fantasy Award CollectionWon
1982 Locus Award AnthologyNominated [25]
1982 Balrog AwardCollection/AnthologyNominated [26]
Elsewhere, Vol. II

(with Mark Alan Arnold)

1983 Balrog AwardCollection/AnthologyNominated [27]
1983 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [28]
Faery!1985 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [29]
1986 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
Elsewhere, Vol. III

(with Mark Alan Arnold)

1985 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [30]
Ace Books 1987 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional Nominated
1988 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional Nominated
Snow White, Blood Red

(with Ellen Datlow)

1994 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
1994 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [31]
Black Thorn, White Rose

(with Ellen Datlow)

1995 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
1995 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [32]
The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors 1995 Otherwise Award Honor
1996 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [33]
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

(with Ellen Datlow)

1996 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [34]
The Wood Wife 1997 Mythopoeic Awards Adult LiteratureWon
1997 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated [35]
Black Swan, White Raven

(with Ellen Datlow)

1998 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [36]
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

(with Ellen Datlow)

1998 International Horror Guild Award AnthologyNominated [37]
1999 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [38]
Silver Birch, Blood Moon

(with Ellen Datlow)

2000 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
2000 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [39]
"The King with Three Daughters"

(with Ellen Datlow)

2001 Ditmar Award Short FictionNominated
Black Heart, Ivory Bones

(with Ellen Datlow)

2001 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [40]
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales

(with Ellen Datlow)

2001 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [41]
2002 Utah Beehive Book AwardYoung AdultNominated [42]
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

(with Ellen Datlow)

2003 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
2003 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [43]
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold

(with Ellen Datlow)

2004 Locus AwardYoung Adult BookNominated [44]
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

(with Ellen Datlow)

2005 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
2005 Locus AwardYoung Adult BookNominated [45]
Salon Fantastique

(with Ellen Datlow)

2007 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
2007 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [46]
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

(with Ellen Datlow)

2008 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
2008 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [47]
Endicott Studios Website

(with Midori Snyder)

2008 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional Won
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales

(with Ellen Datlow)

2010 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [48]
2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award AnthologyNominated
The Beastly Bride

(with Ellen Datlow)

2011 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [49]
Teeth: Vampire Tales

(with Ellen Datlow)

2011 Shirley Jackson AwardAnthologyNominated [50]
2012 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [51]
After

(with Ellen Datlow)

2013 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [52]
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

(with Ellen Datlow)

2013 Shirley Jackson AwardAnthologyNominated [53]
2014 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
2014 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [54]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror & other anthologies2022 World Fantasy Award Life AchievementWon
2009 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Kate Wilhelm Solstice AwardWon [55]

See also

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