Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor, Devon, UK

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, scenting the stories in the air of a Darmoor summer. (Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, rests on a blanket next to a wooden fence containing a hillside garden. There's a window built into the fence so she can see out across the rural landscape of farmers' fields. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie (our young brown spaniel) with her friend Pippin (a pointer) standing at the top of Meldon Hill on the eastern edge of Dartmoor. The land is usually a lush vivid green in summer, but this year it is a greenish yellow-brown due to a fierce heatwave and the lack of rain. Devon, UK.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the back of the sofa in my work studio. There is a reproduction of a French medieval Winged Deer tapestry behind her; and a small bookcase to the left of her, with a Virginia Lee print above it and a small Jeanie Tomanek painting on an upper shelf.
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, looking up from the River Teign where it passes by our Dartmoor village. Devon, UK.
The image depicts the original hardcover edition of The Summer Isles: A Voyage of Imagination by Philip Marsden, photographed at the edge of a Dartmoor stream on a hot summer day. This is my third (or fourth?) reading of this marvelous book and I'm carried away by it every time.
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, on a sun-dappled path winding through the hills. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: A small brown dog (part spaniel, part otter) swims in the golden water of the River Teign. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
Photograph: Jenny Odell's book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (published in 2019), sitting on a Burne-Jones tote bag with a cup of coffee beside it.
Photograph: a mossy old tree not far from home, in the shimmering heat of a Dartmoor summer. (Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, wades into the River Teign where it flows past our small village on Dartmoor (Devon, UK). When she is thoroughly wet and all cooled down, her nose turns pink.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the greenery of a Dartmoor summer.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the River Teign below Castle Drogo. (Drewsteignton, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the shimmering light and shadow of our courtyard. The statue behind her is by Wendy Froud.
Photograph: a Dartmoor pony foal and mama from one of the semi-wild pony herds who roam across the moor and around our rural village. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the pathway up our hillside garden through a tangle of wildflowers.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown Sprocker spaniell, grinning up from a woodland path on the hill behind our house.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, amid the foxgloves growing by a woodland path. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: My husband Howard, sitting in a chair and cradling our spaniel, Lottie, when she was a pup. Their sweet relationship is much the same today.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the vivid summertime green of our hillside. She keeps me rooted to the wild every day. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, among the herb pots.
Image: A sketch of mine of two little people with their animal companion and a collection of fairy tale books. Written below are the words: "Tell us a story," they insisted. "A new one. Or an old one."
Photograph: The original edition of Briar Rose (in The Fairy Tale Series, 1992), and two subsequent editions, all published by Tor Books.
Photograph: Lottie,a young brown-and-white spaniel. Woodland companion.
Photograph: Writing in the woods. The image shows two writing notebooks in bracken and brambles.
Photograph: the expanded edition of Jane Yolen's excellent, influential book Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood, surrounded by woodland ivy.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, standing in the water of a narrow leat waiting for me to throw her rubber stick. Splashing through water while playing Fetch is one of her favourite things. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, amid the daisies and foxgloves of our rather wild and overgrown garden. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
Photograph: Our small rural village on Dartmoor, tucked into farmland at the edge of the moor. (Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, in the courtyard behind our kitchen. The statue is by Wendy Froud.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown-and-white spaniel, in a field close to our Dartmoor village. In the distance, the blue-grey slopes of the open moor rise over the patchwork farmland of our rural landscape.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown-and-white spaniel. Dreaming.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, sits by tall pink spires of foxgloves on a hillside path winding through the bracken. Bees are buzzing around the blossums, and the colours are vivid from recent rain.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, at the edge of the woodlands behind my studio. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, drying off after a walk through a sudden downpour of rain. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, in the lush greenery of our hillside during a break in yesterday's rain. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Our young spaniel, Lottie, sprawled on a chair next to a small table stacked with books and journals. Shelter, companionship, stories.
Photograph: Spring wildflowers in our kitchen courtyard, include daisies, foxgloves, and valerian. The statue again the stone wall on the right is by Wendy Froud.
Photograph: Lottie on the green slope of Ore Hill, with Meldon Hill rising beyond. There are sheep grazing a short distance behind her. Lottie has been well trained to leave sheep alone, as all dogs sharing a rural landscape with farmers and animals must be.
Photograph: Lottie at the kitchen door with three dog friends and one human friend, all of them soaking wet. Rain or river? They're not telling.
Photograph: Lottie, our usually joyful young spaniel, curled up woefully, missing my husband. She'll perk up in a day or two, but will insist on sleeping with his smelly old brown t-shirt until he returns.
Image: A poster with art by Virginia Lee, depicting a Dartmoor tree woman scattering leaves over another female figure formed from the soil and grasses of the Dartmoor hills. This scattering of leaves has the feeling of a blessing. The poster text says: Celebrating the Earth presents THE NATURE OF PEACE, an evening of chants, reflection, and meditation on peace and place, with Chagford's Taizé community. When: Tuesday, 16 June, 2026, 5:30 - 6:30 pm. Where: St Michael's church in Chagford, a small rural market town on Dartmoor (Devon, UK).
Photograph: Our young brown spaniel on a sun-dappled path through a Dartmoor woodland.
Photograph: The view from the top of the hill behind my work studio. In the distance is a patchwork of farmers' fields, with the rise of the open mor beyond. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the door of the cabin I use as a writing/editing/art studio. The cabin is made of recycled materials, and sits on on the side of hill, overlooking the valley below.
The Chagford Mummers performing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, stands in the Fairy Springs by our village Commons. The iron-rich water (a little low right now) is gold and orange as it flows through the mossy green landscape.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, carries her favourite toy (a rubber throwing stick) to the village Commons, where she will enjoy a vigorous game of fetch. She's recently played in a stream and so she is soaking wet in this picture. She enjoys her life. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the path into the wild.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, stands on a chair to peer out a window overlooking our house's front gate. Waiting, waiting, waiting.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, sits in a sea of native English bluebells, intoxicated by magic. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
Picture: A post from the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies showing a book open on a wooden table or desk, with a pen just above it. The book is What Remains the Same by Dubin-based author Alvy Carrager; her poem "Library" is on the open page.
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, asleep on the livingroom sofa. She is cuddle a brown t-shirt, and her dragon toy is behind her.
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, walking the hills with me this morning. Bluebells and other wildflowers are in bloom. In the distance is a rolling landscape of farmers' fields, with the rise of the open moor behind. (Dartmoor, Devon, southwest England)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown-and-white spaniel, with her paws in sleep position. (Darmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, climbing the hill behind my studio. The trees have budded out and wildflowers are blooming, but the bracken is still dry and brown. By summer it will be green and waist-high. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, standing on the hill behind my work studio, enraptured by bluebells. (Dartmoor, Devon, UK)
Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, sits on a mossy hillside that is covered in bluebells. The happier she is, the longer her tongue is. She's very happy here.
Poster: Black Rock Subway Studio Benefit Show, from your friends in the BNI in memory of Austen Gayton. Bands playing: No Relief, Complete Snake, Bodybag, Infinite Wisdon, Outlive, Lost Cause. Tuesday, 12th May, at Green Door Store. Doors open 6:30 pm - cash donation entry. All proceeds to help keep Black Rock open.
Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, at the edge of a Dartmoor woodland in bluebell season.