This week's special guest is...
(photo credit, Gregory Frost)
Ellen Datlow has been editing science
fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years as fiction
editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and
SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she
has edited more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies,
including the annual The Best Horror of
the Year, Lovecraft’s
Monsters, Fearful
Symmetries, Nightmare
Carnival, The Cutting Room, and The Doll Collection.
Forthcoming is The
Monstrous.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards,
Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards,
Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black
Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named
recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy
Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored
with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in
acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with
the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy
Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the
monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can
be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on twitter as @EllenDatlow.
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