In 2010, Windling received the SFWA Solstice Award, which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field". Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.
Early life
Terri Windling was born on December 3, 1958, in Fort Dix, New Jersey.[1] She was raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.[2][3] She attended Antioch College, graduating in 1979.[4]
After college, she moved to New York and worked in publishing as an editor and an artist.[3][5]
Career
Writing
In the American publishing field, Windling has been one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s, through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines and as the editor of more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction. She created the Fairy Tale Series[6] of novels that reinterpret classic fairy tales. She is also recognized as one of the founders of urban fantasy, having published and promoted the first novels of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and other pioneers of the genre.[7][8]
With Ellen Datlow, Windling edited 16 volumes of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (1986–2003), an anthology that reached beyond the boundaries of genrefantasy 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 intended for adult survivors of child abuse like herself.[9][10]
As an author, Windling's fiction includes The Wood Wife (1996), 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.
In 2020, she announced the establishment of a publishing company, Bumblehill Press.[4][12]
Art
As an artist, Windling specializes in work inspired by myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her art has been exhibited across the US, as well as in the UK and France.
Windling is the founder of the Endicott Studio, an organization dedicated to myth-inspired arts, and was the co-editor with Midori Snyder of The Journal of Mythic Arts from 1987 until it ceased publication in 2008.[13] She also sits on the board of the Mythic Imagination Institute.
"Surviving Childhood", The Armless Maiden, Tor Books, 1995
"Transformations", Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Expanded Edition), Anchor, 1998
Co-writer and editor of Brian Froud's Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, Simon & Schuster, 2000
"On Tolkien and Fairy Stories", Meditations on Middle-Earth, St. Martin's Press, 2001
Contributing writer to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
Contributing writer to Fées, elfes, dragons & autres créatures des royaumes de féerie, edited by Claudine Glot and Michel Le Bris, Hoëbeke, France, 2004
Contributing writer to Panorama illustré de la fantasy & du merveilleux, edited by André-François Ruaud, Les Moutons Electriques, France 2004
Retold Fairy Tales series, with Ellen Datlow (for Middle Grade readers)
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, Simon & Schuster, 2000
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Simon & Schuster, 2002
Troll's Eye View and Other Villainous Tales, Viking, 2009
Mythic Fiction series, with Ellen Datlow, illustrated by Charles Vess (for Young Adult readers)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Viking, 2002 (winner of the World Fantasy Award)
The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm, Viking, 2004 (World Fantasy Award nominee)
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking, 2007 (World Fantasy Award nominee)
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, Viking, 2010
Salon Fantastique with Ellen Datlow, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006 (winner of the World Fantasy Award)
Teeth with Ellen Datlow, HarperCollins, 2011
After with Ellen Datlow, Disney/Hyperion, forthcoming 2012
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells with Ellen Datlow, Tor Books, forthcoming 2013[needs update]
Series edited
The Fairy Tale Series, created with artist Thomas Canty, Ace Books and Tor Books, 1986 to present[6] – novels that retell and reinterpret traditional fairy tales; by Steven Brust, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Patricia Wrede, Jane Yolen, and others
Brian Froud's Faerielands, Bantam Books, 1994 – contemporary fantasy novellas by Charles de Lint and Patricia A. McKillip, illustrated by Brian Froud
Borderland, New American Library, Tor Books, Harper Prism, 1985 to present
The latter Young Adult shared-world series features the intersection of Elfland and human lands, which is generally populated by teenagers, runaways, and exiles. Primary series writers are Ellen Kushner, Charles de Lint, Midori Snyder, Emma Bull, and Will Shetterly. The series consists of five anthologies and three novels to date.[when?]
de Vos, Gail, and Altmann, Anna E. (1999), New Tales for Old: Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults, CT: Libraries Unlimited/The Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN1-56308-447-3
