A. C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld , Tor.com , The Best Horror of the Year , and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror , among other places. She has two collections published by Lethe Press, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again , and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories , which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. In addition to her fiction, she contributes a monthly review column to Apex Magazine . Visit her online at acwise.net.
Alyssa Wonglives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and really, really likes crows. Her story “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and she was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award.
Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Strange Horizons , Nightmare Magazine , Black Static , and Tor.com , among others. Alyssa can be found on Twitter as @crashwong.
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost forty years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about ninety science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the series The Best Horror of the Year , Fearful Symmetries , The Doll Collection , The Monstrous , Children of Lovecraft , Black Feathers , and Mad Hatters and March Hares .
Forthcoming is The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories .
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 given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and the Life Achievement Award by the 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 datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow.
Also Edited by Ellen Datlow
A Whisper of Blood
A Wolf at the Door (with Terri Windling)
After (with Terri Windling)
Alien Sex
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (with Terri Windling)
Black Swan, White Raven (with Terri Windling)
Black Thorn, White Rose (with Terri Windling)
Blood is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism
Blood and Other Cravings
Children of Lovecraft
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Fearful Symmetries
Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas)
Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton)
Hauntings
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Lethal Kisses
Little Deaths
Lovecraft Unbound
Lovecraft’s Monsters
Mad Hatters and March Hares
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
Nightmare Carnival
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
Omni Best Science Fiction: Volumes One through Three
Omni Books of Science Fiction: Volumes One through Seven
OmniVisions One and Two
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (with Terri Windling)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (with Terri Windling)
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (with Terri Windling)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (with Terri Windling)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling)
Snow White, Blood Red (with Terri Windling)
Supernatural Noir
Swan Sister (with Terri Windling)
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories
Teeth: Vampire Tales (with Terri Windling)
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology
The Beastly Bride: And Other Tales of the Animal People (with Terri Windling)
The Best Horror of the Year: Volumes One through Ten
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (with Terri Windling)
The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
The Doll Collection
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
The Green Man: Tales of the Mythic Forest (with Terri Windling)
The Monstrous
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (with Terri Windling)
Twists of the Tale
Vanishing Acts
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (with Terri Windling, Gavin J. Grant, and Kelly Link)
Copyright © 2018 by Ellen Datlow
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