About
Terri Windling is an American writer and editor in the field of fantasy literature. She has published over forty books for adult and young readers, receiving ten World Fantasy Awards (including the Life Achievement award in 2022), the Mythopoeic Award (for her novel The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as a writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor." She has also been short-listed twice for the Shirley Jackson Award (for Teeth and Queen Victoria's Book of Spells), and once for the Tiptree (for The Armless Maiden). Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Korean, and Japanese.
Terri writes also writes nonfiction on folklore, fairy tales, fantasy and modern mythic arts. She delivered the fourth annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford (2016), participated in the Modern Fairies cross-media arts project sponsored by Oxford and Sheffield Universities (2018-2019), served on the Advisory Board for a major exhibition on Fantasy at the British Library in London (2023), and is involved with the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow University (founded in 2020).
A former New Yorker, she now lives with her British husband, a dramatist & puppeteer, in a small village on Dartmoor, in Devon, England.
Featured Work
The Wood Wife
Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year
"A splendid desert fantasy that flows with its own eerie logic -- arresting, evocative, and well-worked out." - Kirkus Reviews (pointer review)
"A wonderful, elegant fantasy -- sensuous, fascinating, and eerily spiritual."
- Robert Holdstock
“This is a novel of muscle and tenderness, of sharp edges and great delights."
- Charles de Lint
"Windling is best known as the editor of some of the best fantasy and fantasy anthologies of the last few decades. She’s one of the most influential editors in the genre -- and still I wish she’d find more time for her own writing because this book is just marvelous." - Jo Walton
