Terri Windling

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Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Windling's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

In the American publishing field, Windling is one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s -- first through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines; secondly as the creator of the 'Fairy Tales' series of novels (featuring reinterpretations of classic fairy tale themes by Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, Pamela Dean, Patricia C. Wrede, Charles de Lint, and others); and thirdly as the editor of over thirty anthologies of magical fiction. She is also recognized as one of the founders of the urban fantasy genre, having published and promoted the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the form.

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 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.

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

Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, an organization dedicated to myth-inspired arts, and co-editor (with Midori Snyder) of The Journal of Mythic Arts. She also sits on the board of the Mythic Imagination Institute. She divides her time between Devon, England and Arizona. She is married to Howard Gayton, the British dramatist and co-founder of the influential Commedia dell'arte troupe, the Ophaboom Theatre Company.

Bibliography

• The Fairy Tale Series (This series was created by Terri Windling and is published by Tor books. Tor books describes the series as a growing library of original novels by acclaimed writers of fantasy and horror, beautifully designed by artist Thomas Canty, each retelling a classic fairy tale.)
  • The Sun, the Moon and the Stars by Steven Brust
  • The Nightingale (The Nightingale) by Kara Dalkey
  • Tam Lin (Tam Lin) by Pamela Dean
  • Jack the Giant-Killer (Jack the Giant-Killer) by Charles de Lint
  • Snow White and Rose Red (Snow White and Rose Red) by Patricia Wrede
  • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) by Jane Yolen
  • White as Snow by Tanith Lee (2000)
  • Fitcher's Brides (Bluebeard) by Gregory Frost (2002)
• Other novels
  • The Changeling (1995)
  • The Wood Wife (1996)
  • Red Rock (1998)
  • The Raven Queen (1999) -- part of the Voyage of the Basset series.
  • A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale (1999) (with Wendy Froud)
  • The Winter Child (2001) (with Wendy Froud)
  • The Faeries of Spring Cottage (2003) (with Wendy Froud)

References

External links

• The Endicott Studio
• The Journal of Mythic Arts
• Terri Windling's website
• Biography page
• Editing Anthologies for Young People, CBC Magazine
• The Artist as Shaman: Madness, Shapechanging & Art in Terri Windling's The Wood Wife by Niko Sylvester, Mythic Passages Sept-Oct 2003
• "Donkeyskin, Deerskin, Allerleirauh: The Reality of the Fairy Tale" by Helen Pilinovsky (examines the Donkeyskin fairy tale in fiction by Robin McKinley, Jane Yolen, and Terri Windling), Realms of Fantasy Magazine, 2001, and The Journal of Mythic Arts, 2005