About The Editors

Ellen Datlow has been editing short stories in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields for thirty years. She was fiction editor of Omni Magazine and editor of SCIFICTION. She also edited numerous anthologies throughout those years and continues to do so today. Her most recent anthologies include Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Haunted Legends (co-edited with Nick Mamatas), The Beastly Bride, and Troll’s Eye View (these last two with Terri Windling). Forthcoming in 2011 is Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy. She co-edited The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for twenty-one years and has been editing The Best Horror of the Year for three years. Datlow has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel curate the long-running New York monthly reading series, Fantastic Fiction at KGB. She lives in New York City with two opinionated cats. Her website is at www.datlow.com and she blogs at http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/ and on Facebook.

Terri Windling is an editor, artist, folklorist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field, and her book The Armless Maiden placed on the short-list for the Tiptree Award. She has edited over thirty anthologies of magical fiction (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created the “Borderland” series (a pioneering work of Urban Fantasy); and she has been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. As a painter, her art has been exhibited in museums and galleries in England, France, and the U.S.; she is also co-director of The Endicott Studio, a transatlantic organization dedicated to mythic arts. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives in a small country village in the west of England with her husband, step-daughter, and a lively black dog. For more information, please visit her website (www.terriwindling.com), her blog (http://windling.typepad.com/blog), and the Endicott Studio’s website (www.endicott-studio.com).