Windling, Terri
Entry updated 7 November 2022. Tagged: Artist, Author, Editor.

(1958- ) US editor, artist and author, who occasionally publishes under the pseudonym Bellamy Bach. She grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and attended Antioch College, where she pursued her interests in art and folklore. She then moved to New York and began working in the publishing industry. She has had her greatest impact on the field as an editor, both of book series and anthologies that accompanied and abetted the burgeoning popularity of Fantasy in the 1980s and beyond. While working for Ace Books, she developed the company's fantasy line, discovering such authors as Steven Brust and Charles de Lint, and launched the Ace Fantasy Specials with Emma Bull's War for the Oaks (1987). She also created and edited two series of related books: the Fairy Tales series of retold fairy tales, which began with Brust's The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (1987), and the Borderland series of anthologies and novels for teenage readers, which take place in a Shared World where realms dominated by magic and Technology uneasily intersect. In 1987 she moved to Tor Books as a consulting editor, founded Endicott Studios to promote stories, art, and drama inspired by fairy tales and folklore, and launched The Journal of Mythic Arts, which continued publishing until 2008. Windling has also edited three Elsewhere anthologies with Mark Alan Arnold; sixteen Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies with Ellen Datlow (the first two designated only as the Year's Best Fantasy); six Retold Fairy Tales anthologies with Datlow; and a number of individual anthologies, usually with Datlow. Almost all of these are devoted to fantasy, though After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (anth 2012) with Ellen Datlow is of sf interest, a collection of original Young Adult tales involving dystopian future Earths (see Dystopia; Holocaust Fiction; Ruined Earth). To date she has won seven World Fantasy Awards for individual anthologies, as well as one award for general editing and another for her Endicott Studios website.
Windling has also been intermittently active as an author and artist. She has written unheralded two fantasy novels, The Wood Wife (1996) and The Raven Queen (1999), the latter a young adult novel co-written by Ellen Steiber that is part of the Voyage of the Basset series. Her other publications include some short stories and poems, usually for her own anthologies, and some children's books illustrated by Wendy Froud that feature the character of a young fairy named Sneezle. Along with some interior art, Windling is credited with the artwork on five covers for three books by Charles de Lint, the first issue of Century magazine, and Rose Lemberg's sf Poetry anthology The Moment of Change (2012), although these efforts, all portraits of young women, tend to have an unfinished look. After variously living in Boston, Arizona, and Devon, England, she has now settled in Devon to live with her husband, dramatist Howard Gayton. In 2022 she received a World Fantasy Award for life achievement. [PNH/JC/GW]
see also: Worldcon.
Terri Windling
born Fort Dix, New Jersey: 3 December 1958
works
series
Sneezle
- A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999) [chap: for children: Sneezle: illus/hb/Wendy Froud]
- The Winter Child (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001) [chap: for children: Sneezle: illus/hb/Wendy Froud]
- The Faeries of Spring Cottage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003) [chap: for children: Sneezle: illus/hb/Wendy Froud]
individual titles
- The Changeling (New York: Random House, 1995) [juvenile fiction: pb/]
- The Wood Wife (New York: Tor, 1996) [hb/Susan Seddon Boulet]
- The Raven Queen (New York: Random House, 1999) with Ellen Steiber [juvenile fiction: Voyage of the Basset #2: pb/James Christiansen]
works as editor
series
Elsewhere
- Elsewhere (New York: Ace Books, 1981) with Mark Alan Arnold [anth: Elsewhere: pb/uncredited]
- Elsewhere, Volume II (New York: Ace Books, 1982) with Mark Alan Arnold [anth: Elsewhere: pb/George de Hoff]
- Elsewhere, Volume III (New York: Ace Books, 1984) with Mark Alan Arnold [anth: Elsewhere: pb/George de Hoff]
Chronicles of the Borderlands
- Borderland (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1986) with Mark Alan Arnold [anth: Chronicles of the Borderlands: pb/uncredited]
- Borderland 2: Bordertown (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1986) with Mark Alan Arnold [anth: Chronicles of the Borderlands: pb/Phil Hale]
- Life on the Border (New York: Tor, 1991) [anth: Chronicles of the Borderlands: pb/Rick Berry as Sam Rakeland]
- The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faerie (New York: Tor, 1998) with Delia Sherman [anth: Chronicles of the Borderlands: pb/Jim Carroll]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
- The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1988) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Demons and Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 (London: Legend, 1989) with Ellen Datlow [anth: vt of the above: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1989) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Demons and Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 2 (London: Legend, 1990) with Ellen Datlow [anth: vt of the above: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1991) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1993) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1995) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1997) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1999) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2000) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2002) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2003) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Adult Fairy Tale Series
- Snow White, Blood Red (New York: William Morrow, 1993) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Black Thorn, White Rose (New York: William Morrow, 1994) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (New York: William Morrow, 1995) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: hb/Matt Stawicki]
- Black Swan, White Raven (New York: William Morrow, 1997) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]
- Silver Birch, Blood Moon (New York: William Morrow, 1999) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]
- Black Heart, Ivory Bones (New York: William Morrow, 2000) with Ellen Datlow [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]
Retold Fairy Tales
- A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000) with Ellen Datlow [anth: Retold Fairy Tales: pb/Tristan Elwell]
- Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003) with Ellen Datlow [anth: Retold Fairy Tales: hb/Kamil Vojnar]
- The Dark of the Woods: Fairy Tales for Modern Times (New York: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin Books, 2006) with Ellen Datlow [anth: omni of two above titles: pb/Charles Vess]
- Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (New York: Viking, 2009) with Ellen Datlow [anth: Retold Fairy Tales: hb/Esao Andrews]
individual titles
- Faery! (New York: Ace Books, 1982) [anth: pb/Dawn Wilson]
- The Armless Maiden, and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (New York: Tor, 1995) [anth: hb/Carol Russo]
- Brian Froud. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998) [text and illustrations by Brian Froud: edited by Terri Windling: illus/hb/Brian Froud]
- Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (New York: HarperPrism, 1998) with Ellen Datlow [anth: pb/Fletcher Sibthorp]
- The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (New York: Viking, 2002) with Ellen Datlow [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
- The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (New York: Viking, 2004) with Ellen Datlow [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
- Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006) with Ellen Datlow [anth: pb/Jim Zaccaria]
- The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (New York: Penguin Viking Juvenile, 2007) with Ellen Datlow [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
- The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People (New York: Viking, 2010) with Ellen Datlow [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
- Teeth: Vampire Tales (New York: Harper, 2011) with Ellen Datlow [anth: Vampires: hb/Valentina Kallias]
- After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (New York: Hyperion, 2012) with Ellen Datlow [anth: Dystopia: Post-Holocaust: hb/Tyler Nevins]
- Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (New York: Tor, 2013) with Ellen Datlow [anth: hb/Allen Williams]
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