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• Introduction -- Ellen Datlow
  Ellen Datlow
  Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
  
   & Terri Windling
  Terri Windling
  Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award...
  
  
• Words Like Pale Stones -- Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...
  
   -- a retelling of Rumplestiltskin in which the miller's daughter proves herself to be resourceful and resolute.
• Stronger Than Time -- Patricia C. Wrede
• Somnus’s Fair Maid -- Ann Downer
  Ann Downer
  Ann Downer is an American writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and young adults, as well as short fiction and poetry....
  
  
• The Frog King, or Iron Henry -- Daniel Quinn
  Daniel Quinn
  Daniel Quinn is an American writer described as an environmentalist. He is best known for his book Ishmael , which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991....
  
  
• Near-Beauty -- M. E. Beckett
• Ogre -- Michael Kandel
  Michael Kandel
  Michael Kandel is an American translator and author of science fiction. He received a doctorate in Slavistics from Indiana University, and is an editor at the Modern Language Association. Kandel is also a part-time editor at Harcourt, editing Ursula K...
  
  
• Can’t Catch Me -- Michael Cadnum
  Michael Cadnum
  Michael Cadnum is an American poet and novelist. He has written more than thirty books for adults, teens and children. He is best known for his adult suspense fiction, and young adult fiction based on myths, legends, and historical figures....
  
  
• Journeybread Recipe -- Lawrence Schimel
  Lawrence Schimel
  Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...
  
  
• The Brown Bear of Norway -- Isabel Cole
• The Goose Girl -- Tim Wynne-Jones
  Tim Wynne-Jones
  Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...
  
  
• Tattercoats -- Midori Snyder
  Midori Snyder
  Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore. She has published eight novels for children and adults, winning the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati...
  
  
• Granny Rumple -- Jane Yolen
  Jane Yolen
  Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...
  
  
• The Sawing Boys -- Howard Waldrop
  Howard Waldrop
  Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies , classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical...
  
  
• Godson -- Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  
• Ashputtle -- Peter Straub
  Peter Straub
  Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
  
  
• Silver and Gold -- Ellen Steiber
  Ellen Steiber
  Ellen Steiber is an American novelist and author of books for young readers, including some based on single episodes of The X-Files and Full House series.- Background :...
  
  
• Sweet Bruising Skin -- Storm Constantine
  Storm Constantine
  Storm Constantine is a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series.- Life and work :Since the late 1980s Constantine has written more than 20 novels, plus several non-fiction books...
  
  
• The Black Swan -- Susan Wade
• Recommended Reading—Misc. Material