| Terri Windling | |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Antioch College |
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.
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.[5]
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.[12]
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.
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]
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.
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.
| Award | Awards Won | Only Nominated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker Award | 1 | 5 | |
| British Fantasy Award[20] [21] [22] | 3 | ||
| International Horror Guild Award[23] | 1 | ||
| Locus Award[24] | 16 | ||
| World Fantasy Award | 3 | 8 |
| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsewhere(with Mark Alan Arnold) | 1982 World Fantasy Award | Collection | |||
| 1982 Locus Award | Anthology | [25] | |||
| 1982 Balrog Award | Collection/Anthology | [26] | |||
| Elsewhere, Vol. II(with Mark Alan Arnold) | 1983 Balrog Award | Collection/Anthology | [27] | ||
| 1983 Locus Award | Anthology | [28] | |||
| Faery | 1985 Locus Award | Anthology | [29] | ||
| 1986 World Fantasy Award | Collection | ||||
| Elsewhere, Vol. III(with Mark Alan Arnold) | 1985 Locus Award | Anthology | [30] | ||
| Ace Books | 1987 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | ||||
| 1988 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | |||||
| Snow White, Blood Red(with Ellen Datlow) | 1994 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 1994 Locus Award | Anthology | [31] | |||
| Black Thorn, White Rose(with Ellen Datlow) | 1995 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 1995 Locus Award | Anthology | [32] | |||
| The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors | 1995 Otherwise Award | ||||
| 1996 Locus Award | Anthology | [33] | |||
| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears(with Ellen Datlow) | 1996 Locus Award | Anthology | [34] | ||
| The Wood Wife | 1997 Mythopoeic Awards | Adult Literature | |||
| 1997 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | [35] | |||
| Black Swan, White Raven(with Ellen Datlow) | 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | [36] | ||
| Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers(with Ellen Datlow) | 1998 International Horror Guild Award | Anthology | |||
| 1999 Locus Award | Anthology | [37] | |||
| Silver Birch, Blood Moon(with Ellen Datlow) | 2000 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 2000 Locus Award | Anthology | [38] | |||
| "The King with Three Daughters"(with Ellen Datlow) | 2001 Ditmar Award | Short Fiction | |||
| Black Heart, Ivory Bones(with Ellen Datlow) | 2001 Locus Award | Anthology | [39] | ||
| A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales(with Ellen Datlow) | 2001 Locus Award | Anthology | [40] | ||
| 2002 Utah Beehive Book Award | Young Adult | [41] | |||
| (with Ellen Datlow) | 2003 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 2003 Locus Award | Anthology | [42] | |||
| Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold(with Ellen Datlow) | 2004 Locus Award | Young Adult Book | [43] | ||
| The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm(with Ellen Datlow) | 2005 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 2005 Locus Award | Young Adult Book | [44] | |||
| Salon Fantastique(with Ellen Datlow) | 2007 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | [45] | |||
| The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales(with Ellen Datlow) | 2008 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| 2008 Locus Award | Anthology | [46] | |||
| Endicott Studios Website(with Midori Snyder) | 2008 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional | ||||
| Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales(with Ellen Datlow) | 2010 Locus Award | Anthology | [47] | ||
| 2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Anthology | ||||
| The Beastly Bride(with Ellen Datlow) | 2011 Locus Award | Anthology | [48] | ||
| Teeth: Vampire Tales(with Ellen Datlow) | 2011 Shirley Jackson Award | Anthology | [49] | ||
| 2012 Locus Award | Anthology | [50] | |||
| After(with Ellen Datlow) | 2013 Locus Award | Anthology | [51] | ||
| Queen Victoria's Book of Spells(with Ellen Datlow) | 2013 Shirley Jackson Award | Anthology | [52] | ||
| 2014 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | ||||
| 2014 Locus Award | Anthology | [53] | |||
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror & other anthologies | 2022 World Fantasy Award | Life Achievement | |||
| 2009 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association | Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award | [54] | |||
