Ellen Datlow, a Guest of Honor at Readercon 11, has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over twenty-five years. She was editor of Sci Fiction, the fiction area of SCIFI.com, the Sci Fi Channel's website for almost six years; editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for one and a half years; and fiction editor of Omni Magazine and Omni Online for seventeen years.

She has edited more than fifty anthologies including Blood Is Not Enough (William Morrow, 1989), Alien Sex (Dutton, 1990), A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow, 1991), Snow White, Blood Red (with Terri Windling) (Morrow/Avon, 1993), Black Thorn, White Rose (with Terri Windling) Morrow/Avon, 1994), Little Deaths (Millennium (UK), Dell (US), 1994), Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (with Terri Windling) AvoNova/Morrow, 1995), Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (St. Martin's Press, 1996), Twists of the Tale: Stories of Cat Horror (Dell, 1996), Lethal Kisses — Revenge and Vengeance (Orion (UK), 1996), Black Swan, White Raven (with Terri Windling) (Avon Books, 1997), Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling) (HarperPrism, 1998), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (with Terri Windling) (Avon Books, 1999), Black Heart, Ivory Bones (with Terri Windling) (Avon Books, 2000), Vanishing Acts (Tor Books, 2000), A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (with Terri Windling) (Simon & Schuster, 2000), The Green Man (with Terri Windling) (Viking, 2002), Swan Sister (with Terri Windling) (Simon &Schuster, 2003), The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Tor, 2003), The Faery Reel (with Terri Windling) (Viking, 2004), Salon Fantastique (with Terri Windling) (Thunder's Mouth, 2006), The Coyote Road (with Terri Windling) (Viking, 2007), Inferno (Tor, 2007), Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe (Solaris, 2008), Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (with Terri Windling) (Viking, 2009), Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (Roc, 2009), and twenty-one annual volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, (the first sixteen with Terri Windling, St. Martin's Press, 1988 — 2002; the last five with Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, 2003 — 2008), The Best Horror of the Year, Volumes One to Three (Night Shade, 2009, 2010, 2011), Lovecraft Unbound (Dark Horse, 2009), Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (Tachyon, 2010), The Beastly Bride (with Terri Windling) (Viking, 2010), Teeth: Vampire Tales (HarperCollins, 2011), Supernatural Noir (Dark Horse, 2011), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (St. Martin's Press, 2011), and Blood and Other Cravings (Tor, 2011). Forthcoming is After (with Terri Windling), Hyperion 2012. Datlow is tied (with Terri Windling) for winning the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization's history (nine). She has also won multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Editor, the International Horror Guild Award for The Dark and for Inferno, the Shirley Jackson Award for Inferno, and two Bram Stoker Awards (one with Terri Windling, the other with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link). She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." She recently was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.

Datlow co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction at KGB monthly reading series, has taught several times at Clarion West, and once at Clarion South.

She lives in New York City with two cats. You can follow her at http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/