Her other publications include some short stories and poems, usually for her own anthologies, and some children's books illustrated by Wendy Froud that feature the character of a young fairy named Sneezle. She has written unheralded two fantasy novels, The Wood Wife ( 1996) and The Raven Queen ( 1999), the latter a young adult novel co-written by Ellen Steiber that is part of the Voyage of the Basset series. Windling has also been intermittently active as an author and artist. To date she has won seven World Fantasy Awards for individual anthologies, as well as one award for general editing and another for her Endicott Studios website. Almost all of these are devoted to fantasy, though After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (anth 2012) with Ellen Datlow is of sf interest, a collection of original Young Adult tales involving dystopian future Earths (see Dystopia Holocaust Fiction Ruined Earth). Windling has also edited three Elsewhere anthologies with Mark Alan Arnold sixteen Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies with Ellen Datlow (the first two designated only as the Year's Best Fantasy) six Retold Fairy Tales anthologies with Datlow and a number of individual anthologies, usually with Datlow.

In 1987 she moved to Tor Books as a consulting editor, founded Endicott Studios to promote stories, art, and drama inspired by fairy tales and folklore, and launched The Journal of Mythic Arts, which continued publishing until 2008. She also created and edited two series of related books: the Fairy Tales series of retold fairy tales, which began with Brust's The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars ( 1987), and the Borderland series of anthologies and novels for teenage readers, which take place in a Shared World where realms dominated by magic and Technology uneasily intersect.

While working for Ace Books, she developed the company's fantasy line, discovering such authors as Steven Brust and Charles de Lint, and launched the Ace Fantasy Specials with Emma Bull's War for the Oaks ( 1987). She has had her greatest impact on the field as an editor, both of book series and anthologies that accompanied and abetted the burgeoning popularity of Fantasy in the 1980s and beyond. She then moved to New York and began working in the publishing industry. She grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and attended Antioch College, where she pursued her interests in art and folklore. (1958- ) US editor, artist and author, who occasionally publishes under the pseudonym Bellamy Bach.

Troll's-Eye View by Ellen Datlow