Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and folklorist specializing in myth and fantasy. She has published over forty books, receiving ten World Fantasy Awards (including the Life Achievement Award in 2022), plus the Mythopoeic, Bram Stoker, and SFWA Solstice Awards. She has edited fantasy fiction since the 1980s, working with many of the major writers in the field, and co-edited the Years Best Fantasy & Horror anthologies with Ellen Datlow for sixteen years. She also writes fiction for adults and children (The Wood Wife, The Color of Angels, A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale, etc.), and nonfiction on folklore, fairy tales, and myth. She delivered the fourth annual Tolkien Lecture at Oxford University (2016); has been involved with the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow since its founding in 2020; was on the Advisory Board for a major exhibition on fantasy at the British Library in London (2023 - 2024); and will be a Guest of Honour at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow (2024). A former New Yorker, she now now lives in a village full of artists in Devon, England.