Terri Windling

Terri Windling — Author. Terry is an Early Urban Fantasy—part of the first wave of contemporary urban fantasy.

Website[]

Genres[]

Early Urban Fantasy / Fantasy / Young Adult

About the Author[]

Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. She has won six World Fantasy awards for her editorial work and the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. She has edited over thirty anthologies, many in collaboration with Ellen Datlow—including the Snow White, Blood Red adult fairy-tale series, The Armless Maiden, Sirens, The Green Man, and Swan Sister. She has also written children's books and articles on myth and folklore, and she edits the Endicott Studio Online Journal of Mythic Arts website. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.

Full Bio—Authors site: TW Bio & Information and Bordertown series ~ Press and Goodreads

Writing Style[]

Genres[]

Early Urban Fantsy,

Series[]

Series Title	Genre	Supernatural Elements
Borderland series (1986–1994)	Early UF YA	Faeries, magical creatures
Old Oak Wood series	Child, Fant	faery, enchanted Dartmoor woodland
Newford Seris (cover art)		Cover Art

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Other Writings[]

Anthologies:

Teeth: Vampire Tales (2011) (co-editor) ~ YA Vampire Ficiton

Cover Artists[]

Artist: Terri Windling

Terri has done cover art and interior art for her own work and for other writers like Charles de Lint on the Newford series.

Publishing Information[]

Publishers:

Author Page: The Essential Bordertown | Terri Windling and Delia Sherman | Macmillan

Awards[]

Bordertown series:[]

Selection:

Great Buzz Pile, School Library Journal
Summer 2011 Kids' Next List: For Teen Readers, Indiebound
2011 Recommended Reading List, Locus Magazine
2012 Rainbow List: GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens, American Library Association

Nominee:

2012 Teen Choice Book of the Year, TeenReads
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2012, YALSA
2012 Locus Award for Best Anthology

~ Source: the bordertown series

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Notes[]

"Bordertown is one of the most important places where Urban Fantasy began." — Neil Gaiman.

A shared-universe original anthology series for teenagers, set in an imaginary city in which humans and magical creatures could meet and interact. Terri Windling was the creator and editor of this influential series - it helped launch, in the mid-1980s, the now popular Fantasy sub-genre Urban Fantasy - influencing both the authors writing for the series in the 1980s (Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Emma Bull, Midori Snyder etc.), as well as upcoming authors who read them (Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, etc.)

"A modern city at the edge of a mysterious, magical realm—a border city where runaway children gather to create new lives for themselves . . . sometimes successfully, sometimes disastrously." - Terri Windling

NOTE: all the "Bellamy Bach" stories in the Borderland series were written by the editor/Borderland founder, Terri Windling. ~ Goodreads | Borderland series