Datlow is the recipient of several awards, including multiple Shirley Jackson awards and Bram Stoker awards, Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, Hugo Awards for Best Short Form Editor, and Locus Awards for Best Editor, to name just a few. She also received the Karl Edward Wagner Award for "outstanding contribution to the genre." In 2011, she was the recipient of a Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association. Datlow also co-hosts a popular reading series, Fantastic Fiction, at the KGB Bar in New York City, where she resides.

Baby Datlow in 1950. The so-called "Gerber baby" portrait was common at the time.

Datlow's high school graduation photo, taken in 1967.

Datlow at home, wearing a vintage dress for a science fiction function in 1981. She says that she favors 1940s-era clothing.

Datlow sitting at her desk in the OMNI offices in 1981, roughly a year after she began working there. On her desk is a Kaypro computer and the Selectric typewriter she kept for addressing envelopes. On her bulletin board she pinned, among other things, a photo of King Kong climbing the Empire State Building.

Datlow in 1989, on the roof of the building where John Clute, renowned science fiction and fantasy critic, and his artist wife, Judith, live. The Clutes are based in Camden Town, London, and have graciously hosted many writers and editors over the past few decades. (Datlow usually stays with them on her annual visit to London.) Datlow is on the left, John Clute is in the center, and Datlow's good friend Pat Cadigan, an award-winning science fiction writer, is on the right.

A manipulated photo of Datlow taken in 1990 by art photographer and illustrator J. K. Potter, giving her cat eyes. It first appeared on the original back flap of Alien Sex.

Datlow in front of an advertisement for OMNI magazine in New York City in 1991. That winter day, Datlow wandered Manhattan with her camera and her friends, the married writers Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon. They happened upon the advertisement just north of Datlow's West Village home.

Datlow with fellow editor Terri Windling in 1994. Datlow and Windling have collaborated on anthologies for more than twenty years, yet rarely see each other. This photo is from one of those rare yet cherished meetings.

Datlow modeled for J. K. Potter's cover of the illustrated edition of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, published in 1990. Potter gave Datlow a print of the image, which hangs on her living room wall.

Acknowledgements.

I SHOULD LIKE TO thank the following people, who in various ways, made the publication of Alien Sex possible: Bruce McAllister, Lucius Shepard, Ed Bryant, Harlan Ellison, David Hartwell, Merrilee Heifetz, Jeanne Martinet, and particularly, all the contributors.

In addition, The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute, first edition (1979), was used as a source in my Introduction.

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"The Jamesburg Incubus" copyright 1990 by Scott Baker.

"Dancing Chickens" copyright 1984 by Edward Bryant. First published in Light Years and Dark, edited by Michael Bishop. By permission of the author.

"Roadside Rescue" copyright by Pat Cadigan. First published OMNI Publications International, Ltd. in 1985. By permission of the author.

"How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" by Harlan Ellison. Copyright 1977 by Harlan Ellison. Reprinted by arrangement with, and permission of, the author and the author's agent, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., New York. All rights reserved.

"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" copyright 1968 by Philip Jose Farmer. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc., 845 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022.

"The First Time" copyright 1990 by K. W. Jeter.

"Her Furry Face" copyright 1983 by Leigh Kennedy. First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1983. By permission of the author.

"Saving the World at the New Moon Motel" copyright 1990 by Roberta Lannes.

"Arousal" copyright 1990 by Richard Christian Matheson.

"When the Fathers Go" copyright by Bruce McAllister. First published in Universe 12, edited by Terry Carr in 1982. By permission of the author.

"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" copyright 1990 by Pat Murphy.

"Man of Steel, Women of Kleenex" copyright by Larry Niven. First published in All the Myriad Ways in 1971. By permission of the author.

"Picture Planes" copyright 1990 by Michaela Roessner.

"Omnisexual" copyright 1990 by Geoff Ryman.

"Scales" copyright 1990 by Lewis Shiner.

"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" copyright 1971 by James Tiptree, Jr. Reprinted by permission of the author's Estate and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.

"Husbands" copyright 1990 by Lisa Tuttle.

"War Bride" copyright 1990 by Rick Wilber.

"All My Darling Daughters" copyright 1985 by Connie Willis. First published in Firewatch, Bluejay Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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