Datlow began her career working forHolt, Rinehart and Winston for three years, as well as doing a stint atCrown Publishing Group.[1] She went on to be fiction editor atOmni magazine andOmni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associatedOmni anthologies. She co-edited theYear's Best Fantasy and Horror series from 1988 to 2008 (withTerri Windling until 2003, later withGavin Grant andKelly Link until the series ended[2]). She was also editor of the webzineEvent Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from 1998 to 1999, as well asSci Fiction until it ceased publication on December 28, 2005.[3][4]
Datlow has edited the anthologiesNebula Awards Showcase 2009,Darkness: Two Decades of Horror (2010),Hauntings (2013),Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (with Terri Windling,Tor Books, 2013),[5][6]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),Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (2019),When Things Get Dark (2021), andNight & Day: Dreadful Dark/Merciless Sun (2025).[7][8][9]
In 2011, Datlow received the Lifetime Achievement Award by theHorror Writers Association.[12] She has been a trustee of the Horror Writers Association since 2006 and a co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at theKGB bar in New York City since 2000.[13][14][15][16][17]
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