Terri Windling is a multi-award-winning editor, artist, essayist, and author. She has received nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for lifetime achievement. A pivotal figure in the mythic fiction resurgence of the 1980s, Windling is recognized for her work as an editor for Ace and Tor Books, creator of the Fairy Tales novel series, and editor of over thirty anthologies of magical fiction, including sixteen volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror with Ellen Datlow. She is also considered a founder of the urban fantasy genre. Her own fiction includes the Mythopoeic Award-winning novel The Wood Wife and several children's books. Windling's essays on myth and folklore have been widely published, and she contributed to The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. As an artist, she creates work inspired by myth and folklore.