About Endicott Studio

About the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts

The Endicott Studio, founded in 1987, is an organization dedicated to literary, visual, and performance arts rooted in myth, folklore, and fairy tales. We cross over borders of genre, media, and category to seek out myth-inspired works wherever they might be found, ranging from mainstream fiction to fantasy, from mythic theater to puppetry, from gallery-oriented art to illustration, design, and craftwork. Please visit our website, where you'll find our quarterly on-line Journal of Mythic Arts, as well as reading lists, archived reviews, and other mythic information.

Many myths from around the world address the relationship between humankind, animals, and the numinous earth. Because of this, we also offer news and links for various environmental arts -- especially those entwined with the storytelling traditions of native cultures.

If your website (or one you know of) falls within the parameters of this blog and you'd like to nominate it for a possible feature, please send the URL to: endicottblog-nominations[at]yahoo[dot]co.uk. 

Terri Windling

Terri Windling is the founder and co-director of The Endicott Studio, as well as a writer, book editor, and painter. She has published over forty books (translated into nine languages), winning seven World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and placing on the short list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. As a writer, she has published mythic novels for adults and young adults (The Wood Wife, etc.), children's picture books, short stories, poetry, and many articles on myth and fairy tale topics. As an editor, she has published numerous anthologies for both adults and children (The Armless Maiden, etc.), and she co-edited The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annual volumes with Ellen Datlow for sixteen years. As a painter, her work has appeared in museums and galleries in the U.S., U.K., and France. She is a consulting editor for Tor Books in New York, and sits on the advisory boards of Firebird Books and the Mythic Imagination Institute. Terri lives in Devon, England, but spends time each year at a desert retreat in Arizona.

Midori Snyder

Midori Snyder is the co-director of the Endicott Studio, and the author of eight books for children and adults, published in English, French, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition.  Other novels include The Flight of Michael McBride (a mythic western), Soulstring (a lyrical fairy tale), The Oran Trilogy: New Moon, Sadar's Keep, and Beldan's Fire (imaginary-world fantasy, recently re-published in Vikings's Firebird line), and Hannah's Garden (a contemporary faery novel for young adults). Her short stories have appeared in numerous venues including the The Armless Maiden; Black Thorn, White Rose; Xanadu III; Swan Sister; Borderland; and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her nonfiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy and other magazines, and in essay collections including Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. In addition to writing she teaches English at a Jesuit high school; she is co-editor and web-designer of the Journal of Mythic Arts; and she is on the panel of judges for the 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Awards. Midori lives in Wisconsin with her husband, Stephen Haessler.

Helen Pilinovsky

Helen Pilinovsky was born in Vienna and raised in New York by Russian émigré parents. She is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she is working on the archetypal differences between the canons of Eastern and Western European fairy tales. Her reviews appeared in Marvels & Tales: the Journal of Fairy Tale Studies and the New York Review of Science Fiction. She has published articles in the Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts, in Realms of Fantasy magazine, and in a selection of academic journals. She has guest-edited issues of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Extrapolations, and she is the Academic Editor of Cabinet des Fees. Her interests include fairy tales, folklore, and the fantastic, as well as teaching, arguing literary theory, and silversmithing.

Elizabeth Genco

Elizabeth Genco is a writer, reader, fiddle player, and Taroist living in Brooklyn, New York. She is also the co-founder (with her husband, Leland Purvis) of Streetfables, a small press dedicated to comics, 'zines, and chapbooks. Her publications include Weird Sister, Red, Portraits of 22 Keys, and various works on the Tarot for Llewellyn Publishing. She writes a column for Scryptic Studios, in addition to contributing reviews, and keeps a music blog, Sonicdiary!. To learn more about Elizabeth and her work, please visit her website.

Jamie Bluth

Jamie Bluth is a writer, instructional designer, and technical editor. She has designed and developed computer-based training on a variety of fire fighting topics, as well as written a host of poems about strong-willed princesses. Recently, she has joined the Endicott Studio as a book reviewer and a much appreciated (and needed) copy editor. She is a yoga practitioner and hiker, and is currently attempting to learn to paint. Jamie lives in Virginia.

Kathleen Howard

Kathleen Howard is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Minnesota, currently working on gender and images of the body in texts by medieval and early modern mystical women.  Fantasy literature is a secondary  specialty of hers, and she has taught, withJennifer Miller, a very popular course in children's fantasy literature.  Her scholarship has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal (as Gil Grantmore), the Wisconsin International Law Journal, the University of Minnesota Law Review, and Medieval Encounters.  A former competitive fencer, she enjoys performing Shakespeare, and running, and wishes that more books had good sword fights in them.