ELLEN DATLOW was editor of SCI FICTION, the multi award-winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years. She was fiction editor of OMNI for over seventeen years and has worked with an array of writers in and outside the science fiction/ fantasy/horror genres. Her most recent anthologies include Inferno, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound (M Press), The Green Man, The Faery Reel, The Coyote Road, and Troll’s-Eye View (the latter four with Terri Windling). Forthcoming in 2010 are Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy(St. Martin’s), Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror(Tachyon Press), Digital Domains (Prime), and Haunted Legends(coedited with Nick Mamatas; Tor). She coedited The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for twenty-one years, and now edits Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books). Datlow has won nine World Fantasy Awards, two Bram Stoker Awards, three Hugo Awards, five Locus Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Society Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” She lives in New York City with two opinionated cats.
Her Web site is at www.datlow.com and she blogs at ellen-datlow. livejournal.com.