Terri Windling


Terri Windling 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.
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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, 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, 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, 1995The Wood Wife, Tor Books, 1996
  • "The Color of Angels", The Horns of Elfland, New American Library, 1997The Raven Queen, with Ellen Steiber, Random House, 1999The 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, forthcomingLittle 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, 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

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.

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.
AwardAwards WonOnly Nominated
Bram Stoker Award15
British Fantasy Award3
International Horror Guild Award1
Locus Award16
World Fantasy Award38

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Elsewhere
'		1982 World Fantasy AwardCollectionWon
Elsewhere
'		1982 Locus AwardAnthology
Elsewhere
'		1982 Balrog AwardCollection/Anthology
Elsewhere, Vol. II
'		1983 Balrog AwardCollection/Anthology
Elsewhere, Vol. II
'		1983 Locus AwardAnthology
Faery!1985 Locus AwardAnthology
Faery!1986 World Fantasy AwardCollection
Elsewhere, Vol. III
'		1985 Locus AwardAnthology
Ace Books1987 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional
Ace Books1988 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional
Snow White, Blood Red
'		1994 World Fantasy AwardAnthology
Snow White, Blood Red
'		1994 Locus AwardAnthology
Black Thorn, White Rose
'		1995 World Fantasy AwardAnthology
Black Thorn, White Rose
'		1995 Locus AwardAnthology
The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors1995 Otherwise Award
The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors1996 Locus AwardAnthology
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
'		1996 Locus AwardAnthology
The Wood Wife1997 Mythopoeic AwardsAdult LiteratureWon
The Wood Wife1997 Locus AwardFantasy Novel
Black Swan, White Raven
'		1998 Locus AwardAnthology
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
'		1998 International Horror Guild AwardAnthology
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
'		1999 Locus AwardAnthology
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
'		2000 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
'		2000 Locus AwardAnthology
"The King with Three Daughters"
'		2001 Ditmar AwardShort Fiction
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
'		2001 Locus AwardAnthology
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
'		2001 Locus AwardAnthology
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
'		2002 Utah Beehive Book AwardYoung Adult
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
'		2003 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
'		2003 Locus AwardAnthology
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
'		2004 Locus AwardYoung Adult Book
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
'		2005 World Fantasy AwardAnthology
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
'		2005 Locus AwardYoung Adult Book
Salon Fantastique
'		2007 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyWon
Salon Fantastique
'		2007 Locus AwardAnthology
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
'		2008 World Fantasy AwardAnthology
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
'		2008 Locus AwardAnthology
Endicott Studios Website
'		2008 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professionalWon
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
'		2010 Locus AwardAnthology
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
'		2013 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardAnthology
The Beastly Bride
'		2011 Locus AwardAnthology
Teeth: Vampire Tales
'		2011 Shirley Jackson AwardAnthology
Teeth: Vampire Tales
'		2012 Locus AwardAnthology
After
'		2013 Locus AwardAnthology
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells
'		2013 Shirley Jackson AwardAnthology
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells
'		2014 World Fantasy AwardAnthology
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells
2014 Locus AwardAnthology
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror & other anthologies2022 World Fantasy AwardLife AchievementWon
2009 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers AssociationKate Wilhelm Solstice AwardWon