Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies for adults, teenagers, and children, many of them with Terri Windling. She has won multiple Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” and in 2010 she was given the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
Ellen lives in New York City, where she co-hosts the long-running reading series Fantastic Fiction at KGB. More information can be found at www.datlow.com or at her blog, http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com.
Terri Windling is an editor, artist, 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, and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field. She has edited more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction for children, teenagers, and adults (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created the Bordertown series (a pioneering work of urban fantasy: www.bordertownseries.com); and she’s been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives in small country village on Dartmoor, in the southwest corner of England, with her husband, daughter, and a dog named Tilly. Visit her on the Web at www.terriwindling.com, or on her blog, The Drawing Board, at http://windling.typepad.com/blog.