The People Behind the Endicott Studio & JoMA

Editorial Staff:

Terri Windling founded the Endicott Studio in 1987, and the Endicott/JoMA website in 1997, both of which are now run in partnership with Midori Snyder. Terri is a writer, painter, anthology editor, folklorist -- and a long-time advocate of mythic arts and contemporary fairy tale literature. She has published over 40 books for children and adults, winning 8 World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), and placing on the short-list for the Tiptree Award (for The Armless Maiden). A former New Yorker, Terri worked as a fiction editor in the publishing industry before moving to Boston, where the Endicott Studio began. She eventually settled down in a small country village on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. She also spends time each winter at the Endicott West arts retreat in Tucson, Arizona.

Midori Snyder is co-director of the Endicott Studio, and the co-editor of The Journal of Mythic Arts. She has published eight novels for adult and teen readers, winning the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati. Raised in the U.S. and Africa, Midori studied African oral narratives, earned a Masters in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, and taught English and Creative Writing to high school students in Italy and Milwaukee. Midori and her husband now live in Tucson, Arizona, where she's writing a new novel and running Endicott's Tucson office.

Jamie Bluth, Assistant Editor at Endicott, is in charge of copy-editing for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is also a reviewer and art scout for JoMA's blog. In her other life, Jamie is a technical writer, editor, and instructional designer (specializing in fire-fighting topics), as well as an emerging poet with an interest in all things mythic. She lives in Virginia.

Staff Writers & Reviewers:

Heinz Insu Fenkl writes articles on language and folklore for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. He has published novels, stories, essays, anthologies, and translations from the Korean. His mythic memoir, Memories of My Ghost Brother, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Raised in Korea, Germany, and California, Heinz graduated from Vasser, studied Korean shamanism as a Fulbright scholar, researched lucid dreaming at the University of California, and now teaches Creative Writing at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is also the co-publisher of Bo-Leaf Books with his wife, Anne B. Dalton. Heinz, Anne, and their daughter Bella live in upstate New York.

Elizabeth Genco has published fiction in The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. She is the author of  Scheherazade, Weird Sister, Red, and other works of fiction and graphic fiction. She also writes on tarot for Llewellyn Publishing, produces a regular column for Scryptic Studios, and keeps a music blog, Sonicdiary!.  She is the co-publisher of Street Fables Press with her partner, Leland Purvis, in Brooklyn, New York.

Kathleen Howard reviews adult and children's fiction for JoMA's blog. She 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. She teaches classes on fantasy and children's literature,  and is one of the people behind the Fantasy Matters academic conference.

Helen Pilinovsky writes articles on myth and magical literatue for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and is a reviewer for JoMA's blog. Raised by Russian émigré parents in New York City, she earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she worked on the archetypal differences between the canons of Eastern and Western European fairy tales. She now teaches children's literature at California State San Bernadino. Helen's articles have appeared in both academic and popular journals, and she is co-editor of the fairy tale literature magazine Cabinet des Fées.

Endicott West:

Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner are co-founders, with Terri Windling, of Endicott West, an arts retreat in Tucson, Arizona. Delia was born in Japan, raised in New York City, studied at Vasser, and earned her PhD in Renaissance Studies from Brown University. She has published novels for teenagers and adults (Changeling, The Porcelain Dove, etc.), as well as numerous works of short fiction. Ellen was raised in Cleveland, studied at Barnard, worked as a fiction editor in New York City and as a radio host in Boston. She is now best known for her nationally-broadcast radio program Sound & Spirit, and as the author of award-winning novels including Thomas the Rhymer and The Privilege of the Sword. Ellen and Delia live in Manhattan.

Emma Bull & Will Shetterly are the managers and writers-in-residence at Endicott West in Tucson. Emma, who was raised in Minnesota, writes short stories, screenplays, children's books and novels including War for the Oaks, Finder, and Territory. She has also performed and recorded music with Cats Laughing and The Flash Girls. Will spent part of his childhood living in a roadside attraction in Florida, an experience which he turned into the novel Dogland. He has written short stories, screenplays, and comic books, in addition to fantasy novels for both teens and adults (Elsewhere, The Gospel of the Knife, etc.). Visit the Qwerty Ranch website for more information on Will and Emma's work.

Curious about where the Endicott name came from? You can read about it here.

Web Assistance:

      

Midori Snyder is webmaster for all things Endicott. Paul Hinze and Elizabeth Genco provide coding assistance. Jamie Bluth is our copy-editor and proof-reader. Mel Davis helps with correspondence.

Tom Canty, Meg Fox, Brian Froud, James Graham, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Oliver Hunter, Stu Jenks, Alan Lee, Virginia Lee, Iain McCaig, Jeanie Tomanek, Charles Vess and Mark Wagner have generously allowed us to make frequent use of their art.

Earlier versions of the Endicott and JoMA sites (which have been on the web since 1997) have been coded and/or designed by: Peter Brough, Christopher Lathem, Richard & Mardelle Kunz, Anita Dobbs, Jim Otepka, Carlotta Love, and Munro Sickafoose -- all of whom were unstintingly generous with their time. Thomas Harlan very kindly donated server space from 1997 - 2006, until we outgrew our original home.

   

"Little, Big" drawing by Thomas Canty. Used with permission.