Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and

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. She is a winner of the

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and the

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

(

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Career

Datlow began her career working for Holt, Rinehart and Winston for three years, as well as doing a stint at

Crown Publishing Group The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories. Originally founded in 1933 as a remaindered books wholesaler called Outlet Book Company, the firm expanded int ...

. She went on to be fiction editor at ''Omni'' magazine and ''Omni Online'' from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated ''Omni'' anthologies. She co-edited the '' Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' series from 1988 to 2008 (with

Terri Windling Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram ...

until 2003, later with Gavin Grant and

Kelly Link Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of sci ...

until the series ended). She was also editor of the webzine ''Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror'' from 1998 to 1999, as well as '' Sci Fiction'' until it ceased publication on December 28, 2005. Datlow has edited the anthologies '' Nebula Awards Showcase 2009'', '' Darkness: Two Decades of Horror'' (2010), '' Hauntings'' (2013), ''Queen Victoria's Book of Spells'' (with Terri Windling,

Tor Books Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese scienc ...

, 2013), '' Lovecraft's Monsters'' (2014), ''The Cutting Room'' (2014), ''The Monstrous'' (2015), ''Nightmares'' ( Tachyon Publications, 2016), ''The Doll Collection'' (2016), ''Mad Hatters and March Hares'' (2017), ''The Devil and the Deep'' (2018), and ''When Things Get Dark'' (2021). She now edits '' The Best Horror of the Year'', published by

Night Shade Books Night Shade Books is an American, San Francisco–based imprint, formerly an independent publishing company, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among its publications have been the U.S. edition of Iain M. Banks' novel ...

. This is an annual compendium of selected horror fiction and poetry published in the previous year. It has included work by notable writers including

Laird Barron Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine '' Melic Review''. He lives in Ups ...

, Stephen Graham Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, and Nicholas Royle.

Awards and recognition

Datlow won the

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier ...

for Best Professional Editor in 2002 and 2005, and the Hugo for Best Short Form Editor in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Her editing work has also been recognized with five

s, ten

s, two International Horror Guild Awards for Best Anthology, three

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented a ...

s for Best Anthology, and twelve Locus Awards for Best Editor. She was named recipient of the 2007

Karl Edward Wagner Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He ...

Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention, for "outstanding contribution to the genre". In 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the

. She is a longtime trustee of the Horror Writers Association and has been a co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000.

Selected list of awards

* 1989

for Best Anthology, ''The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection'' (with Terri Windling) * 1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection'' (with Terri Windling) * 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection'' (with Terri Windling) * 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''Little Deaths'' * 1995 World Fantasy Special Award, professional * 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''Silver Birch, Blood Moon'' (with Terri Windling) * 2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''The Green Man'' (with Terri Windling) * 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''Salon Fantastique'' (with Terri Windling) * 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, ''Inferno'' * 2010

for Lifetime Achievement * 2014 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement * 2020

for Best Editor, Short Form * 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, ''Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories''

References

External links

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