Terri Windling

Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won eight 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.

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 lives in Tucson, Arizona.

References

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/terri-windling-children-s-author Terri Windling] on Answers.com
* [http://www.iblist.com/author1412.htm Terri Windling] at the Internet Book List
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Terri_Windling Terri Windling] at the Speculative Fiction Database
* [http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Terri_Windling Terri Windling] at the Feminist SF Wiki
* [http://www.endicott-studio.com/wtrm/wrMythYoung.html "Mythic Fiction for Young Adults"] by Julie Bartel, The Journal of Mythic Arts, 2005
* [http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Issue10/Windling.html Terri Windling interview] in Locus Magazine, October 2003
* Zipes, Jack (2000), "The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales", Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198601158
* de Vos, Gail, and Altmann, Anna E. (1999)," New Tales for Old: Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults", CT: Libraries Unlimited/The Greenwod Publishing Group, ISBN 1563084473
* [http://bestoflegends.org/fairy/woods.html "Into the Woods: The Faery Worlds of Terri Windling,"] by Donald G. Keller, Legends Magazine, February 1998

External links

* [http://www.endicott-studio.com/ The Endicott Studio]
* [http://www.endicottstudio.typepad.com/jomahome The Journal of Mythic Arts]
* [http://www.terriwindling.com Terri Windling's website]
* [http://endicottstudio.typepad.com/jomatw/ Biography page]
* [http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/perspectives/200505.html/ Editing Anthologies for Young People] , CBC Magazine
* [http://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/septoct2003/newsletterp10.html The Artist as Shaman: Madness, Shapechanging & Art in Terri Windling's The Wood Wife] by Niko Sylvester, Mythic Passages Sept-Oct 2003
* [http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/fordnky.html "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