Ellen Datlow was born on December 31,1949 and is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.
10 Facts About Ellen Datlow
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Ellen Datlow is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award.
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Ellen Datlow went on to be fiction editor at Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies.
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Ellen Datlow co-edited the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series from 1988 to 2008.
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Ellen Datlow was editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from 1998 to 1999, as well as Sci Fiction until it ceased publication on December 28,2005.
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Ellen Datlow has edited the anthologies Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Darkness: Two Decades of Horror, Hauntings, Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, Lovecraft's Monsters, The Cutting Room, The Monstrous, Nightmares, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep, and When Things Get Dark.
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Ellen Datlow won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor in 2002 and 2005, and the Hugo for Best Short Form Editor in 2009,2010,2012,2014,2016, and 2017.
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Ellen Datlow's editing work has been recognized with five Bram Stoker Awards, ten World Fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards for Best Anthology, three Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Anthology, and twelve Locus Awards for Best Editor.
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Ellen Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention, for "outstanding contribution to the genre".
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Ellen Datlow is a longtime trustee of the Horror Writers Association and has been a co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000.