Ellen Datlow (born 1949) is an American speculative fiction editor and anthologist. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Speculative fiction is an all-encompassing term which includes science fiction, alternative history (fiction), horror and fantasy. ...
Biography
Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni athologies. She has edited the horror portion of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series since 1988 (with Terri Windling editing the fantasy portion through 2003, followed by the team of Gavin Grant and Kelly Link). She has also edited numerous original science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies solo, or with Terri Windling. She was editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from 1998 through 1999, and is currently the editor of Sci Fiction. Omni was a magazine which contained both articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Terri Windling is an influential fantasy editor, artist, essayist, and author of the novel The Wood Wife (1996), winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for best novel. ... Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 (judging by this 2001 article). ... Sci Fiction is at present the leading online magazine for science fiction. ...
Datlow won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor in 2002 and 2005, and her editing work has received two Bram Stoker Awards, seven World Fantasy Awards, one Locus Award for Best Editor, and twice led the Science Fiction Chronicle reader's poll. The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. ... The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for superior achievement in horror writing. ... First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Award is handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. ...
Datlow (the horror half) teams with new co-editors (who assume fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering 43 stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety.
Stephen King is represented by "Harvey's Dream," an eerie tale of a precognitive dream's disruption of an ordinary suburban household.
Datlow has cast her net beyond the horror genre's usual names and pulled in contributors whose stories are the equal of their best work, as well as mystery, fantasy and SF writers whose tales seem to be the ghost story they've always wanted to tell.
EllenDatlow is probably best known for helping to develop the talents of science fiction and horror writers and has worked with and published some of those genres’ brightest stars, such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Stephen King.
Ellen: It depends on what you mean by “succeed” –there are some terrible writers who are successful, in that their books or stories always sell and that they make a living off their fiction writing.
Ellen will be checking in periodically as her schedule permits and is kind enough to respond to questions and comments, so if you’d like to know something, or just want to comment, feel free (but be respectful - thanks:)!
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