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Ellen Datlow (b. 1949) was born and lives in New York City. She earned a B.A. in English Literature before traveling around Europe for a year. Having spent the latter half of the 1970s attempting to work in the book publishing industry, she was eventually hired as associate fiction editor at Omni magazine in 1980.

When Robert Sheckley left as fiction editor, Datlow was promoted to his job. After editing twelve Omni anthologies for various publishers, in 1989 she became the editor of a string of acclaimed horror and science fiction anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Alien Sex, A Whisper of Blood, Little Deaths, Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, Twists of the Tale: Stories of Cat Horror, Lethal Kisses: Revenge and Vengeance, Vanishing Acts, and The Dark: New Ghost Stories.

With Terri Windling, she has co-edited the successful series of fairy tale anthologies Snow White, Blood Red, Black Thorn, White Rose, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, Black Swan, White Raven, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Black Heart, Ivory Bones, A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, The Faery Reel, and The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales.

For 16 years, since 1988, Datlow and Windling co-edited the multiple award-winning The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series from St. Martin’s Press, with Datlow handling the horror material. From the seventeenth volume onwards, Windling’s role has been taken by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.

A winner of seven World Fantasy Awards, the Locus Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, and three Hugo Awards, Datlow shepherded SCI FICTION, the fiction area of SCIFI.COM, the SCI FI Channel's website, through six years of groundbreaking online publishing, being responsible for turning the site into a critical success, and selecting stories that garnered numerous major awards, including three Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, and a World Fantasy Award.

Datlow is currently a consulting editor at Tor Books.

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