Terri Windling

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-13

Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and author born December 3, 1958, in Fort Dix, New Jersey, recognized as a founding figure of modern urban fantasy and mythic fiction. She graduated from Antioch College in 1979 and moved to New York to work in publishing, where her editorial work at Ace and Tor Books helped launch the mythic-fiction resurgence of the early 1980s, publishing writers such as Charles de Lint and Emma Bull. Her novel The Wood Wife (1996) won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and her other works include The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (1995), the Fairy Tale Series of novels reinterpreting classic tales, the Borderland young-adult series, and, with Ellen Datlow, sixteen volumes of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (1986-2003) and the Snow White, Blood Red anthology series. She has received nine World Fantasy Awards over her career, including the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as a Bram Stoker Award and the 2010 SFWA Solstice Award. She founded the Endicott Studio for mythic arts, established Bumblehill Press in 2020, and delivered the 2016 Tolkien Lecture at Oxford.

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Books

• The Wood Wife (1996) · The Wood Wife Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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