B I B L I O G R A P H Y
BOOKS

    Welcome to Bordertown, ed. Holly Black & Ellen Kushner.
    New York: Random House, 2011.
    New York: Bluefire, 2012.
    Awards:
    *Selection, Great Buzz Pile, School Library Journal.
    *Selection, Summer 2011 Kids' Next List, Indiebound.
    *Selection, 2011 Recommended Reading List, Locus.
    *Selection, 2012 Rainbow List, American Library Association.
    *Nominated for 2012 Teen Choice Book of the Year, TeenReads.
    *Nominated for 2012 Locus Award, Best Anthology.
    The Golden Dreydl. Illustrated by Ilene Winn-Lederer.
    Watertown MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2007.
    The Privilege of the Sword.
    Northampton MA: Small Beer Press, 2006.
    New York: Bantam/Spectra, 2006.
    New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006 (in Swords of Riverside).
    New York: Bantam/Spectra, 2007.
    Translations:
    Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2006 (El Privilegio de la Espada, Spanish).
    Germany: Goldman, 2008 (Die Dienerin des Schwertes, German)
    Amsterdam: Luitingh Fantasy, 2008 (Het Privilege van het Zwaard, Dutch).
    Tokyo: Hayakawa Pubishing, Inc., 2008 (Japanese).
    Awards:
    *Winner, 2007 Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel.
    *Nominated for 2007 Nebula Award, Best Novel.
    *Nominated for World Fantasy Award, 2007.
    *New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.
    *Nominated for Spectrum Award.
    *Greenman Review Best Adult Novel.
    *Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award Winner.
    *Tiptree Honor List.
    *Nominated for Lambda Literary Awards.
    *Nominated for Cybil Award.
    The Fall of the Kings. (with Delia Sherman).
    New York: Bantam/Spectra, 2002, 2003.
    New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003.
    Translations
    Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2007 (La Caída de los Reyes, Spanish).
    Tokyo: Hayakawa Publishing, Inc., 2008 (Japanese)
    Germany: Goldman, 2009 (Die Legende vom letzten König)
    Awards:
    *Nominated for Mythopoeic Award, Adult Literature.
    *Nominated for Locus Award, Fantasy Novel.
    *Nominated for Gaylactic Spectrum Award, Best Novel.

    The Horns of Elfland. (editor, with Delia Sherman & Donald G. Keller).
    New York: ROC/Penguin, May 1997.
    Awards:
    *Nominated for Locus Award, Best Anthology.

    St. Nicholas and the Valley Beyond the World's Edge. Illustrated by Richard Burhans.
    New York: Penguin/Viking Studio Books, 1994.

    Thomas the Rhymer.
    New York: William Morrow & Co., 1990.
    New York: Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, 1990.
    London: Victor Gollancz, 1991; 1992.
    New York: Tor, 1991.
    New York: Bantam/Spectra, 2004.
    Translations:
    Tokyo: Hayakawa Publishing, Inc., 1992 (Japanese).
    Germany: Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch, 1993 (Thomas der Barde, German).
    Riga: Hekate, 1997 (Tomass Varsmotajs, Latvian).
    Paris: Éditions Hoëbeke, 2000 (Thomas le rimeur, French).
    Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2002 (Thomas le Rimeur, French).
    Moscow: Arabesque, 2007 (Russian).
    Finland: Vaskikirjat, 2008 (Thomas Riiminiekka, Finnish).
    Awards:
    *Winner, 1991 World Fantasy Award.
    *Winner, 1991 Mythopoeic Award.
    *New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.

    Swordspoint, a Melodrama of Manners.
    London: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
    New York: Arbor House, 1987.
    New York: Tor, 1989, November 1991.
    New York: Bantam/Spectra, 2003 (including "Red Cloak," "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death" and "The Death of the Duke" and a new Afterword by EK).
    New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006 (in Swords of Riverside).
    Translations:
    Tokyo: Hayakawa Publishing, Inc., 1993, 2008 (Japanese).
    Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2005 (A Punta de Espada also including "el espadchím cuyo nombre no era Muerte" and "La muerte del duque," Spanish).
    France: Calmann-Lévy, 2008 (À la point de épée: un Mélodrame d’honneur, French).
    Awards:
    *Winner, Gaylactic Network Spectrum Award, 2000 Hall of Fame.
    *Nominated for Prix Imaginales (roman étranger), France, 2009.

    Basilisk (editor). Illustrated by T. Windling.
    New York: Ace Books, August 1980, May 1984.
    Translations:
    Barcelona: Ediciones Martínez Roca, S.A., 1985 (Los Mejores Relatos de Fantasía II, Spanish).
    Awards:
    *Nominated for the Balrog Award for Best Fantasy Anthology of 1980.

    In the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Series.
    New York: Bantam Books; London: Corgi Books
    Outlaws of Sherwood Forest (#47). 1985.
    The Enchanted Kingdom (#56). 1986.
    Translated as El Reino Encantado (series Elige tu Propia Aventura)
    Barcelona: Editorial Timun Mas, S.A., 1991.
    Statue of Liberty Adventure (#58). 1986.
    The Mystery of the Secret Room (#63). 1986.
    Knights of the Round Table (#86). 1988.

SHORT FICTION

    "The Three-fold World"
    Under My Hat, ed. Jonathan Strahan
    New York: Random House, 2012.

    "History"
    Teeth, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
    New York: Harper Collins, 2011.

    "Welcome to Bordertown" (with Terri Windling)
    Welcome to Bordertown, ed. Holly Black & Ellen Kushner
    New York: Random House, 2011

    "The Duke of Riverside"
    Naked City: Tales of New Urban Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow
    New York: St Martin's, 2011.

    "The Children of Cadmus"
    The Beastly Bride, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
    New York: Viking, 2010.
    Reprinted:
    The Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steven Berman
    Lethe Press, 2011.

    "Dulce Domum"
    Eclipse 3, ed. Jonathan Strahan
    San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2009.
    (Upcoming) Reprinted:
    Season of Wonder, ed. Paula Guran
    Prime Books, 2012.

    "Last Drink Bird Head"
    Last Drink Bird Head, ed. Ann Vandermeer & Jeff Vandermeer
    New York: Ministry of Whimsy, 2009.

    "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces"
    Troll’s Eye View, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
    New York: Viking, 2009.

    "'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'"
    Fantasy & Science Fiction, April/May 2009.
    Reprinted:
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 4, ed. Jonathan Strahan
    San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2010.
    Reprinted:
    Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, ed. Brit Mandelo
    Lethe Press, 2012.

    "Honored Guest"
    The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
    New York: Viking, 2007.

    "Beauty Sleeping"
    Parabola v30 #1: Awakening, Spring 2005.

    "Hot Water"
    The Essential Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Delia Sherman.
    New York: Tor, 1998, 1999.
    Translations:
    Tähtivaeltaja
    February 2010 (as "Kuumaa Vettä: Romanttinen kertomus Rajakaupungista," Finnish).

    "The House of Nine Doors"
    Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.
    New York: HarperCollins/HarperPrism, 1998.
    HarperCollins/Eos, 2002.
    Translations:
    Prague: Topzine.cz, 2011 as "Dům Devatera Dveří: Muž, který vešel, ale neodešel" (Czech).

    "The Death of the Duke"
    Starlight 2, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden.
    New York: Tor, 1998.
    Reprinted:
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
    Sworsdpoint New York: Bantam/Spectra, February 2003.
    Swords of Riverside New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006.
    Translations:
    A punta de espada
    Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2005 as "La muerte del duque" (Spanish).
    Awards:
    *Nominated for World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story.

    "On the Taconic" (with Delia Sherman).
    Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres v4 #10 "Metafictions: Stories of Reading", 1998.

    "The Death of Raven"
    The Horns of Elfland, ed. Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, & Donald G. Keller.
    New York: ROC/ Penguin, 1997.

    "The Fall of the Kings" (with Delia Sherman).
    Bending the Landscape, ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel.
    Clarkston GA: White Wolf/Borealis, 1997.
    Reprinted:
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eleventh Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
    Awards:
    *Nominated for World Fantasy Award, Best Novella, 1997.

    "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"
    The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, ed. Terri Windling.
    New York: Tor, 1995.

    "The Hunt of the Unicorn"
    Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, ed. Peter S. Beagle & Janet Berliner.
    New York: HarperCollins/HarperPrism, 1995.
    Reprinted:
    The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Ninth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996
    Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn v2
    New York: HarperPrism, 1999
    Faeries #8, July 2002
    Nestiveqnen Éditions, Paris (as "À la poursuite de la Licorne," French).

    "Playing with Fire"
    The Women's Press Book of New Myth and Magic, ed. Helen Windrath.
    London: The Women's Press, 1993.
    Reprinted:
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

    "The Swordsman whose Name was not Death"
    The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, v81 #3, September 1991.
    Reprinted:
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992
    Strange Horizons online, November 2002
    Sworsdpoint. New York: Bantam/Spectra, February 2003.
    In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, ed. Gordon Van Gelder. New York: Avalon/Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004
    Swords of Riverside. New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006.
    Translations:
    Fiction anthologie périodique de Fantasy & Science Fiction v1, Spring 2005.
    Lyon, France (as "Le bretteur qui n’était pas la Mort," French)
    A punta de espada
    Madrid: Bibliópolis, 2005 (as "El espadachín cuyo nombre no era Muerte," Spanish)
    "Lost in the Mail"
    Life on the Border, ed. Terri Windling
    New York: Tor, 1991.

    "Mockery" (with Bellamy Bach).
    Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold.
    New York: Signet Books, 1986
    New York: Tor, 1996.

    "Charis"
    Borderland, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold.
    New York: Signet Books, 1986
    New York: Tor, 1992.
    Reprinted:
    New Magics, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
    New York: Tor Teen, 2004.

    "Lazarus" Heroic Visions II, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
    New York: Ace Books, 1986.

    "Night Laughter"
    After Midnight, ed. Charles L. Grant.
    New York: Tor, 1986.
    Reprinted:
    Girl's Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, & Martin H. Greenberg.
    New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997
    Streets of Blood, ed. Lawrence Schimel & Martin H. Greenberg.
    Nashville TN: Cumberland House, 1998.
    The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Stephen Jones.
    New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001; London: Robinson, 2001.

    "Red Cloak"
    Whispers, ed. Stuart David Schiff, v5 #1-2, August 1982.
    Reprinted:
    A Distant Soil #28, (illustrated by Colleen Doran), Image Comics, July 1999
    Sworsdpoint. New York: Bantam/Spectra, February 2003
    Swords of Riverside. New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006.

    "The Unicorn Masque"
    Elsewhere, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold.
    New York: Ace Books, 1981.
    Reprinted:
    A Century of Fantasy: 1980-1989, the Greatest Stories of the Decade, ed Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg.
    New York: MJF Books, 1996
    Magical Beginnings, ed. Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg
    New York: DAW Books, 2003 (with new introduction).

POETRY

    "Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble"
    Monochrome: The Readercon Anthology, ed. Bryan Cholfin.
    Cambridge MA: Broken Mirrors Press, 1990.
    Reprinted:
    The Best of the Rest 1990, ed. Steve Pasechnick & Brian Youmans
    Cambridge MA: Edgewood Press, 1991
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
    Rhysling Anthology 1991, ed. Anon.
    Science Fiction Poetry Association/Prime Books, 1991.
    Issued as a limited edition print from The Endicott Studio, Boston, 1990.
    Endicott Studio, online and as an electronic postcard.

    "Gwydion’s Loss of Llew"
    Elsewhere v.II, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold.
    New York: Ace Books, 1982.
    Reprinted:
    Strange Horizons online, November 2002.
    Endicott Studio, online.

RECORDINGS

    The Witches of Lublin
    Sue Media, 2010.
    Awards:
    *Winner, 2012 Wilbur Award for Radio, Single Program
    *Finalist, World's Best Radio Programs, Best Drama Special
    *Nominated, 2012 Distinguished Achievement in Production Award, APA

    The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer Nutcracker for Chanukah
    Rykodisc, 2002.

    Sound & Spirit: Welcoming Children Into the World
    Rykodisc, 1999.

PLAYS

    The Klezmer Nutcracker.
    Vital Theater Co., New York, NY.
    December 2008 - January 2010
    Esther: the Feast of Masks.
    WGBH Radio
    June 2003 - present
    The Witches of Lublin (with Elizabeth Schwartz & Yale Strom).
    In progress.
    The Bone Chandelier (with Ben Moore).
    In progress.




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