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| Born | (1949-12-31)December 31, 1949 (age 75) |
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| Known for | The Best Horror of the Year |
| Website | ellendatlow |
Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor andanthologist. She is a winner of theWorld Fantasy Award and theBram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association).
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.[citation needed]
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),[3][4]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), andWhen Things Get Dark (2021).[5]
She now editsThe Best Horror of the Year, published byNight Shade Books. This is an annual compendium of selected horror fiction and poetry published in the previous year. It has included work by notable writers includingLaird Barron,Stephen Graham Jones,Michael Marshall Smith,Joe R. Lansdale, andNicholas Royle.
Datlow won theHugo Award forBest Professional Editor in 2002 and 2005, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Form Editor in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Her editing work has also been recognized with fiveBram Stoker Awards, tenWorld Fantasy Awards,[6] twoInternational Horror Guild Awards for Best Anthology, threeShirley Jackson Awards for Best Anthology, and twelve Locus Awards for Best Editor. She was named recipient of the 2007Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention, for "outstanding contribution to the genre". In 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award by theHorror Writers Association.[7] She is a longtime trustee of the Horror Writers Association and has been a co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at theKGB Bar since 2000.[citation needed]
{{cite magazine}}:Cite magazine requires|magazine= (help)[permanent dead link]Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology...
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