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Delia has taught writing at Clarion, the Odyssey Workshop in New Hampshire, the Cape Cod Writers’ Workshop, and the American Book Center in Amsterdam. She lives in New York City, loves to travel, and writes wherever she happens to find herself.

Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, and crowd-funded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is a winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, the Andre Norton Award, and the Million Writers Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Spectrum Awards, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009 and for the Hugo Award. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner and two dogs.

GENEVIEVE VALENTINE’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and anthologies Federations, The Living Dead II, and Running with the Pack. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, about a mechanical circus troupe, is coming in 2011 from Prime. She has an insatiable appetite for bad movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, www.genevievevalentine.com.

KAARON WARREN’s third novel, Mistification, was published by Angry Robot Books in 2010, following the award-nominated Slights and Walking the Tree. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of publications edited by Ellen Datlow, including Haunted Legends; Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe; The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two; and Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories. She lives in Canberra, Australia, with her family.

TERRI WINDLING is an editor, artist, folklorist, and essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field, and her book The Armless Maiden was placed on the short list for the Tiptree Award. She has edited more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created the Borderland series (a pioneering work of urban fantasy); and she’s been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. As a painter, she has had her art exhibited in museums and galleries in England, France, and the United States; she is also codirector of the Endicott Studio, a transatlantic organization dedicated to mythic arts. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives in a small country village in the west of England with her husband, stepdaughter, and a lively black dog. For more information, please visit her website, www.terriwindling.com; her blog, http://windling.typepad.com/blog; and the Endicott Studio’s website, www.endicott-studio.com.

“Bloody Sunrise” copyright © 2008, 2010 by Neil Gaiman, written as a song lyric for Claudia Gonson and recorded on the CD accompanying The Lifted Brow Volume 4, published in November 2008. This is the piece’s first print publication.

Teeth

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Teeth: vampire tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. — 1st ed.font>

v. cm.

Summary: Contents: Things to know about being dead by Genevieve Valentine — All smiles by Steve Berman — Gap year by Christopher Barzak — Bloody sunrise by Neil Gaiman — Flying by Delia Sherman — Vampire weather by Garth Nix — Late bloomer by Suzy McKee Charnas — The list of definite endings by Kaaron Warren — Best friends forever by Cecil Castellucci — Sit the dead by Jeffrey Ford — Sunbleached by Nathan Ballingrud — Baby by Kathe Koja — In the future when all’s well by Catherynne M. Valente — Transition by Melissa Marr — History by Ellen Kushner — The perfect dinner party by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black — Slice of life by Lucius Shepard — My generation by Emma Bull — Why light? by Tanith Lee.font>

ISBN 978-0-06-193515-2 (trade bdg.)

ISBN 978-0-06-193514-5 (pbk.)

1. Vampires — Juvenile fiction. 2. Horror tales, American. [1. Short stories. 2. Vampires — Fiction. 3. Horror stories.] I. Datlow, Ellen. II. Windling, Terri.

PZ5.T294985 2011

[Fic] — dc22

2010018436

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