Terri Windling

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.