About Ellen
Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Ellen is currently tied with frequent co-editor Terri Windling as the winner of the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization's history (nine). She has also won (with co-editor Windling) a Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #13, and (with co-editors Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant) a Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #17. She has also won the International Horror Guild Award for her anthologies The Dark and Inferno; the Shirley Jackson Award for Inferno and Poe; the Locus Award for Best Editor in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and the Hugo Award for Best Editor 2002, 2005, and Best Editor Short Fiction 2008 and 2009. In addition, SCIFICTION won the Hugo Award for best Web site in 2005 as well as the Wooden Rocket Award as best online magazine for 2005.
She's also won nine Fantasy awards, in order:
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin's Press)
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin's Press)
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin's Press)
Ellen Datlow for editing, Special Award-professional
Little Deaths, Ellen Datlow (Orion)
Silver Birch Blood Moon
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling eds.(Avon)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors (Viking)
Salon Fantastique
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth)
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Ellen Datlow, Editor (Tor)Ellen Datlow
Ellen was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." She lives in New York.
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Ellen Datlow
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Recent Honors and Awards
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Hugo Award
Best Editor Short Fiction 2010
Bram Stoker Award
One with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #13
and one with Nick Mamatas for Haunted Legends
International Horror Guild Award
for her anthologies The Dark and Inferno
Shirley Jackson Award
for her anthologies Poe and Inferno
Karl Edward Wagner Award
by the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre."
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Lifetime Achievement Award
by The Horror Writer’s Association
in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work.
Hugo Award
Best Editor Short Fiction 2009
Locus Award
by Locus Magazine
voted Best Editor in 2011
Hugo Award
Best Professional Editor 2005, 2002
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Full Bibliography
NEW:
Teeth: Vampire Tales, with Terri Windling, HarperCollins (April 2011)
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Best Horror of the Year 3, Night Shade (June 2011)
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Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse (June 2011)
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Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, St. Martin's Press (July 2011)
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Blood and Other Cravings, Tor (September 2011)
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Snow White, Blood Red, with Terri Windling, (reissue in
hardcover) Fall River (B&N imprint)
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FORTHCOMING:
After: Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Tales, with Terri Windling, Hyperion (2012)
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"Year's Best" Anthologies |
| Sixteen Annual Volumes: The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror, with Terri Windling, St. Martin's Press, Volume One through
Sixteen, 1988-2002 |
Five Annual Volumes: The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror, with Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, St. Martin's Press,
Volumes Seventeen through Twenty-One (2004-2008)
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| Anthologies |
| Omni Book of Science Fiction, Volumes One through
Seven, Zebra |
| Blood Is Not Enough, William Morrow, 1989 |
| Alien Sex, Dutton, 1990 |
| A Whisper of Blood, William
Morrow, 1991 |
| Omni Best Science Fiction One, Omni Books, 1991
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| Omni Best Science Fiction Two, Omni Books, 1992
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| Omni Best Science Fiction Three, Omni Books, 1993
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| Snow White, Blood Red, with Terri
Windling, Morrow/Avon, 1993 |
| OmniVisions One, Omni Books, 1993 |
| OmniVisions Two, Omni Books, 1994 |
| Black Thorn, White Rose,
with Terri Windling, Morrow/Avon, 1994 |
| Little Deaths, Millennium (UK),
Dell (US), 1994 |
| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, with
Terri Windling, AvoNova/Morrow, 1995 |
| Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex,
St. Martin's Press, 1996 |
| Twists of the Tale: Stories of Cat
Horror, Dell, 1996 |
| Lethal Kisses--Revenge and
Vengeance, Orion (UK), 1996 |
| Black Swan, White Raven, with
Terri Windling, Avon Books, 1997 |
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Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Terri Windling,
HarperPrism, 1998
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| Silver Birch, Blood Moon, with
Terri Windling, Avon Books, 1999 |
| Black Heart, Ivory Bones, with
Terri Windling, Avon Books, 2000 |
| Vanishing Acts,Tor Books, 2000
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A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy
Tales, with Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster, 2000
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The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic
Forest, with Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
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| Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Terri Windling
(reissued in mass market paperback) Avon, fall 2002
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| Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, with Terri Windling, Simon &
Schuster
Children's Publishing, 2003 |
| The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Tor,
2003 |
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The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight
Realm, with Terri Windling, Viking (August 2004) |
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Salon Fantastique, with Terri Windling,
Thunder's Mouth Press (October 2006)
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The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, with Terri
Windling, Viking (September 2007)
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Black Thorn, White Rose, with Terri
Windling (reissued in trade paperback), Prime Books (November 2007)
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Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the
Supernatural, Tor (December 2007)
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The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy:
Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices, Del Rey
(April 2008)
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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, with Terri
Windling, (reissued in trade paperback) Prime Books (April 2008)
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Black Swan, White Raven, with Terri
Windling (reissued in trade paperback), Prime Books (April 2008)
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A Whisper of Blood: A Collection of Modern Vampire
Stories (reissue of Blood is Not Enough and A Whisper of
Blood), Fall River (B&N Imprint) (August 2008)
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Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris
(January 2009)
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Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat
Horror,
(reissued in trade
paperback) Wildside Press (March 2009)
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Roc (March 2009)
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Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, with Terri Windling, Viking
Children (April 2009)
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Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse Comics (October 2009)
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Best Horror of the Year 1, Night Shade (October 2009) |
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Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Tachyon (February 2010) |
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Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Night Shade (February 2010)
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Best Horror of the Year 2, Night Shade (April 2010) |
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The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, with Terri Windling (April 2010)
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Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prime (May 2010)
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Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), Tor Books (September 2010)
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Teeth: Vampire Tales, with Terri Windling, HarperCollins (April 2011)
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