Interviews With The Fantastic
InterGalactic Interview With Ellen Datlow
by Darrell Schweitzer
Ellen Datlow is very close to being the anthologist of fantasy and horror over the
past thirty years or so. She came into prominence as the fiction editor of Omni in
the '80s and since then has edited the webzines Event Horizon and Scifiction, in
addition to a large number of anthologies, both by herself and often in collaboration
with Terri Windling. With Windling, she co-edited The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror for many years. In later volumes, Windling was replaced by Kelly Link and
Gavin Grant. That series has ended, although Ellen is now editing The Best Horror
of the Year for Night Shade Books. She has won five Hugo Awards, (one for Best
Website, Scifiction), two Bram Stoker Awards, nine World Fantasy Awards, two
International Horror Guild Awards, two Shirley Jackson Awards, and the Karl
Edward Wagner Award.
