The People Behind the Endicott Studio

      

 

Endicott Editorial Staff:

 

Terri Windling, founder and co-director of the Endicott Studio, 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 9 World Fantasy Awards, the S.F.W.A. Solstice Award, 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). Formerly a senior editor (specializing in fantasy) for two New York publishing houses, Terri has been a consulting editor (for Tor Books) and a freelance anthology editor since 1986. She has lived in New York City, Boston, and Arizona, and is now settled down in Devon, England, with her English husband, step-daughter, and a lively black dog named Tilly. For more information on Terri and her work, please visit her website, which includes a blog on art, myth, writing, and Devon life: The Drawing Board.

 

Midori Snyder, co-director of the Endicott Studio, has published eight books for adult and teen readers, winning the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati (a novel inspired by Italian myth and commedia dell'arte), and the World Fantasy Award for her work on The Journal of Mythic Arts. Her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Raised in the U.S. and Africa, Midori studied African oral narratives, earned a Masters in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, taught English and Creative Writing to high school students in Italy and Milwaukee, and also raised two children. Midori and her husband now live in Tucson, Arizona, where she's busily at work on new novels and stories, and runs Endicott's Tucson office. For more information, please visit her website, which includes a blog on art, myth, writing, and desert life: In the Labyrinth.

 

Jamie Bluth, Assistant Editor, is in charge of copy-editing and proof-reading for all Endicott projects, including the Journal of Mythic Arts. She has also been a writer, reviewer, and art scout for JoMA's blog. In her other life, Jamie is a technical writer, editor, and instructional designer, as well as an emerging poet with an interest in all things mythic. She lives in Virginia.

Heinz Insu Fenkl has written many articles on language and folklore for The Journal of Mythic Arts, and has helped to run Endicott programming at Wiscon, Mythic Journeys, and other myth and book events. Heinz is the author of 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 reviewed fiction, graphic fiction, art, music, and esoterica for JoMA, in addition to providing web support. She is the author of  Scheherazade, Weird Sister, Red, and other works of fiction and graphic fiction. She has also written about tarot for Llewellyn Publishing, produced regular columns for Scryptic Studios, and published a music blog, Sonicdiary!.  She is the co-publisher of Street Fables Press with her partner, Leland Purvis, in Brooklyn, New York.

Kathleen Howard has reviewed a wide range of adult and children's fiction for JoMA. She is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Minnesota, 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 has written articles on myth and magical literature for The Journal of Mythic Arts, has reviewed nonfiction and critical studies on folklore and fairy tales, and participated in Endicott programming at various myth and book events. Raised by Russian immigrant 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 Fees.

In addition, Ari Berk, Carolyn Dunn, Greg Frost,
Karen Joy Fowler, Kristen McDermott, and Charles Vess have contrbuted to various Endicott projects and participated in Endicott programming at myth and book events.

 

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.

Web Assistance:

      

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

Endicott's name

Curious where it comes from? You can read about it here.

Friends of Endicott

    

The Endicott Studio exists because of the early support of the following people: Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman, Rick & Sheila Berry, Charles de Lint & MaryAnn Harris, Charles Vess & Karen Shaffer, Will Shetterly & Emma Bull, Ellen Steiber, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Anita Dobbs, Ellen Datlow, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Christopher Schelling, Merrilee Heifetz, Mimi Panitch, the Haessler family, and, especially, Thomas Canty. They were with us at the very beginning in Boston, and continue to support and inspire us today.

Our funding has come from the annual sales of art prints donated by Terri Windling, and from the generous donations made by writers, artists, scholars, and readers in the mythic arts community.

Money generated by Amazon.com book sales is donated to our children's charities.

   

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Art credits: "Little, Big" drawing by Thomas Canty; fairy sketches by Alan Lee; "Little People" by T. Windling. All images used with permission.