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Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.[1]

Jeffrey Ford
Ford at Readercon in 2016
Born	(1955-11-08) November 8, 1955 (age 66) West Islip, New York
Occupation	Writer, teacher
Nationality	American
Period	1981–present
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Website
www.well-builtcity.com

He lives in Ohio and teaches writing part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has also taught as a guest lecturer at the Clarion Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers (2004 and 2012), The Antioch University Summer Writing Workshop (2013), LitReactor – 4 Week Online Horror Writing Course (2012), University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing (2011), The Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington, (2010).

Ford has contributed over 130 original short stories to numerous print and online magazines and anthologies: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, MAD Magazine, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld Magazine, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Subterranean, Fantasy Magazine, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, New Jersey Noir, Stories, The Living Dead, The Faery Reel, After, The Dark, The Doll Collection, etc. His fiction has been translated into over fifteen languages and published around the world.[2]

Awards

His stories and novels have been nominated multiple times for the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the Fountain Award, Shirley Jackson Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, the Seiun Award, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, the Nowa Fantastyka Award, and the Hayakawa Award.

World Fantasy Award Winners[3]

The Physiognomy (1998)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (2003)
Creation (2003)
Botch Town (2007)
The Drowned Life (2009)
The Shadow Year (2009)
A Natural History of Hell, Best Collection (2017) (nominee)

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

The Empire of Ice Cream (2004)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best translated story

Exo-Skeleton Town (2005)

The Fountain Award for excellence in the short story[4]

The Annals of Eelin-Ok (2005)

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original

The Girl in the Glass (2005)

Shirley Jackson Award[5]

The Shadow Year (2008) (Best Novel)
A Natural History of Autumn (2012)
Crackpot Palace (2012) (Best Single-Author Short Story Collection)
A Natural History of Hell (2016) (Best Single-Author Short Story Collection)

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2016)

Novels

Vanitas (1988)
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002)
The Girl in the Glass (2005)
The Cosmology of the Wider World (2005)
The Shadow Year (2008)
Ahab's Return (2018)

Well-Built City trilogy

The Physiognomy (1997)
Memoranda (1999)
The Beyond (2001)

Novellas

The Twilight Pariah (2017)
Out of Body (2020)

Short stories

"The Casket" (1981)
"Legacy" (1984)
"Rapture of the Deep" (1984)
"The Master of Fiction" (1988)
"Rose Country" (1989)
"Never" (1989)
"The Alchemist, Becalmed At Sea" (1989)
"The Cosmology of the Wider World" (1990)
"The Last Half" (1990)
"The Place Where nothing Moved" (1991)
"Eclipse" (1991)
"Couch Dancing" (1992)
"The Eighth Wonder" (1992)
"The Colossus of Roads" (1993)
"Every Richie There Is" (1993)
"A Hole in the Day" (1993)
"The Woman Who Counts Her Breath" (1994)
"The Delicate" (1994)
"On the Road to New Egypt" (1995)
"Rabbit Test" (1995)
"The White Man" (1995)
"Grass Island" (1995)
"At Reparata" (2000)
"Malthusian's Zombie" (2000)
"Pansolapia" (2001)
"High Tea With Jules Verne" (2001)
"The Far Oasis" (2001)
"Quiet Days in Purgatory" (2001)
"Horrors By Waters" (2001)
"The Honeyed Knot" (2001)
"Exo-Skeleton Town" (2001)
"Out of the Canyon" (2001)
"Floating in Lindrethool" (2001)
"Summer Afternoon" (2001)
"The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" (2002)
"Bright Morning" (2002)
"Creation" (2002)
"What's Sure to Come" (2002)
"The Green Word" (2002)
"Something By the Sea" (2002)
"The Beautiful Gelreesh" (2003)
"The Empire of Ice Cream" (2003)
"The Yellow Chamber" (2003)
"Present From the Past" (2003)
"Coffins on the River" (2003)
"The Annals of Eelin-Ok" (2004)
"Jupiter's Skull" (2004)
"The Weight of Words" (2004)
"A Night in the Tropics" (2004)
"The Trentino Kid" (2004)
"The Boatman's Holiday" (2005)
"Euroborean Lordosis" (2005)
"Figurative Synesthesia" (2005)
"The Scribble Mind" (2005)
"Giant Land" (2005)
"A Man of Light" (2005)
"Botch Town" (2006)
"The Night Whiskey" (2006)
"The Way He Does It" (2006)
"The Dreaming Wind" (2007)
"Under the Bottom of the Lake" (2007)
"Quitting Dreams" (2007)
"A Few Things About Ants" (2007)
"The Bedroom Light" (2007)
"Ariadne's Mother" (2007)
"The Drowned Life" (2007)
"The Manticore Spell" (2007)
"Daltharee" (2008)
"The Dream of Reason" (2008)
"After Moreau" (2008)
"The Fat One" (2008)
"The Dismantled Invention of Fate" (2008)
"The Seventh Expression of the Robot General" (2008)
"The Golden Dragon" (2008)
"The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper" (2009)
"Weiroot" (2009)
"The Coral Heart" (2009)
"86 Deathdick Road" (2010)
"Ganesha" (2010)
"Sorcerer Minus" (2010)
"Dr. Lash Remembers" (2010)
"Polka-dots and Moonbeams" (2010)
"Down Atsion Road" (2010)
"Daddy Long Legs of the Evening" (2011)
"The Last Triangle" (2011)
"The Summer Palace" (2011)
"The Hag's Peak Affair" (2011)
"Gaslight" (2011)
"Sit the Dead" (2011)
"Relic" (2011)
"The Double of My Double Is Not My Double" (2011)
"Things To Do With Leftover Copies of President Bush's Autobiography" (2011)
"Glass Eels" (2011)
"A Natural History of Autumn" (2012)
"The Angel Seems" (2012)
"Blood Drive" (2012)
"The Fairy Enterprise" (2013)
"The Pittsburgh Technology" (2013)
"A Meeting in Oz" (2013)
"Spirits of Salt" (2013)
"Rocket Ship to Hell" (2013)
"A Terror" (2013)
"The Prelate's Commission" (2014)
"Mount Chary Galore" (2014)
"La Madre Del Oro" (2014)
"Hibbler's Minions" (2014)
"The Order of the Haunted Wood" (2014)
"The Thyme Fiend" (2015)
"In Havana" (2015)
"The 3 Snake Leaves" (2015)
"The Winter Wraith" (2015)
"Word Doll" (2015)
"The Blameless" (2016)
"The Thousand Eyes" (2016)
"Not Without Mercy" (2016)
"The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome" (2017)
"The Five Pointed Spell" (2017)
"Witch Hazel" (2017)
"All the King's Men" (2017)
"The Bookcase Expedition" (2018)
"Thanksgiving" (2018)
"Big Dark Hole" (2018)
"Dick Shook" (2018)
"Sisyphus in Elysium" (2019)
"The Jeweled Wren" (2019)
"Snowman On a White Horse" (2019)
"Incorruptible" (2019)
"From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms" (2020)
"Mr. Sacrobatus" (2020)
"Monster Eight" (2020)[6]

Collections

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (2002)
The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
The Drowned Life (2008)
Crackpot Palace: Stories (2012)
A Natural History of Hell (2016)
The Best of Jeffrey Ford (2020)
Big, Dark Hole (2021)

Curiosities columns in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Source:[7]

Nonfiction

Introduction to Carlos Hernandez's short story collection The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, January 2016
Introduction to Anna Tambour's short story collection The Finest Ass in the Universe, Ticonderoga Publications, July 2015
Introduction to the Clarion Class of 2012's short story anthology The Red Volume, awkwardrobots.org, August 2014
Introduction to Michael Cisco's novel The Traitor, Cenitpede Press, 2012.
Introduction to Ekaterina Sedia's short story collection Moscow, But Dreaming, Prime Books, 2012.
Introduction to John Langan's short story collection The Wide Carnivorous Sky, Hippocampus Press, 2013.
Introduction to David Herter's novel October Dark, Earthling Books, November 2009.
Introduction to Robert Wexler's novel The Painting and the City, PS Publishing, UK, 2008.
Essay on "The Metaphysics of Fiction Writing" included in end matter with story collection The Drowned Life, 2008.
Essay on "Anatomy of Sleep" by Shelley Jackson for online magazine Heliotrope, Fall 2007.
Essay "I Love a Mystery" for LitBlog Co-op site, May 4, 2006.
Introduction to Richard Bowes' story collection Streetcar Dreams, PS Publishing, UK, 2006.
Essay on "Lull" by Kelly Link for online magazine Fantastic Metropolis, Jan. 1, 2005.
Introduction to John Gardner's Grendel, Fantasy Masterworks Series #41, Gollancz, UK, 2004
Introduction to Jeff VanderMeer's story collection Secret Life, Golden Gryphon Press, 2004.
Essay on "The Man Upstairs" by Ray Bradbury for Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 27, 2004.
Essay on "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James for Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 24, 2004.
Essay on "The Hell Screen" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 21, 2004.
Introduction to Lucius Shepard's short novel Floater, PS Publishing, UK, 2003.
Curiosities Column, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, on The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos, June 2000.
Curiosities Column, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, on Katter Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann, April 1999.

References

"Jeffrey Ford: Shadow Years", Locus, June 2008, p.7
Jeffrey Ford's Bibliography April 2016.
World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
"The Speculative Literature Foundation". Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
The Shirley Jackson Award 2013 Winners July 2012
"Bibliography". Jeffrey Ford's Well-Built City. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
Curiosities

External links

Official website
Jeffrey Ford at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Golden Gryphon Press official site - About The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
Golden Gryphon Press official site - About The Empire of Ice Cream
Interview Interview for Actusf.com
"The Physiognomy of Jeffrey Ford" Interview for SFcrowsnest.com
Interview with Jay Tomio

World Fantasy Award—Collection

1975–2000

Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

2001–present

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)

World Fantasy Award—Novel

1975–2000

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip (1975)
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (1976)
Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle (1977)
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1978)
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (1979)
Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980)
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (1981)
Little, Big by John Crowley (1982)
Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea (1983)
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1984)
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1985, tie)
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (1985, tie)
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1986)
Perfume by Patrick Suskind (1987)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (1988)
Koko by Peter Straub (1989)
Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance (1990)
Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow (1991, tie)
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (1991, tie)
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon (1992, tie)
Last Call by Tim Powers (1993)
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner (1994)
Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow (1995)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (1996)
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1997)
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (1998)
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (1999)
Thraxas by Martin Scott (2000)

2001–present

Declare by Tim Powers (2001, tie)
Galveston by Sean Stewart (2001, tie)
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002)
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce (2003, tie)
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (2003, tie)
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (2004)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2005)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)
Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (2007)
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (2008)
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (2009, tie)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (2009, tie)
The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (2011)
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (2012)
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (2013)
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (2014)
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2015)
The Chimes by Anna Smaill (2016)
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (2017)
Jade City by Fonda Lee / The Changeling by Victor LaValle (2018)
Witchmark by C. L. Polk (2019)
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (2020)
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2021)

World Fantasy Award—Novella

1982–2000

The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin (1982)
Confess the Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983, tie)
Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (1983, tie)
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (1984)
The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman (1985)
Nadelman's God by T.E.D. Klein (1986)
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (1987)
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988)
The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (1989)
"Great Work of Time" by John Crowley (1990)
Bones by Pat Murphy (1991)
The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (1992)
The Ghost Village by Peter Straub (1993)
Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley (1994)
Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand (1995)
Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick (1996)
A City in Winter by Mark Helprin (1997)
Streetcar Dreams by Richard Bowes (1998)
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod (1999)
The Transformation of Martin Lake by Jeff VanderMeer (2000, tie)
Sky Eyes by Laurel Winter (2000, tie)

2001–present

The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (2001)
The Bird Catcher by S. P. Somtow (2002)
The Library by Zoran Živković (2003)
A Crowd of Bone by Greer Gilman (2004)
The Growlimb by Michael Shea (2005)
Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill (2006)
Botch Town by Jeffrey Ford (2007)
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (2008)
If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes (2009)
Sea-Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2010)
The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon by Elizabeth Hand (2011)
A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong by K. J. Parker (2012)
Let Maps to Others by K. J. Parker (2013)
Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (2014)
We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory (2015)
The Unlicensed Magician by Kelly Barnhill (2016)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (2017)
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (2018)
"The Privilege of the Happy Ending" by Kij Johnson (2019)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (2020)
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (2021)

World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction

1975–2000

Pages from a Young Girl's Journal by Robert Aickman (1975)
Belsen Express by Fritz Leiber (1976)
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding by Russell Kirk (1977)
The Chimney by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
Naples by Avram Davidson (1979)
Mackintosh Willy by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
The Woman Who Loved the Moon by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop (1981)
The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
Do the Dead Sing? by Stephen King (1982, tie)
The Gorgon by Tanith Lee (1983)
Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) by Tanith Lee (1984)
The Bones Wizard by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
Still Life with Scorpion by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
Paper Dragons by James Blaylock (1986)
Red Light by David J. Schow (1987)
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John M. Ford (1989)
The Illusionist by Steven Millhauser (1990)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
The Somewhere Doors by Fred Chappell (1992)
Graves by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
The Lodger by Fred Chappell (1994)
The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King (1995)
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth (1996)
Thirteen Phantasms by James Blaylock (1997)
Dust Motes by P. D. Cacek (1998)
The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link (1999)
The Chop Girl by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)

2001–present

The Pottawatomie Giant by Andy Duncan (2001)
Queen for a Day by Albert E. Cowdrey (2002)
Creation by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
Don Ysidro by Bruce Holland Rogers (2004)
Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan (2005)
CommComm by George Saunders (2006)
Journey Into the Kingdom by M. Rickert (2007)
Singing of Mount Abora by Theodora Goss (2008)
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson (2009)
The Pelican Bar by Karen Joy Fowler (2010)
Fossil-Figures by Joyce Carol Oates (2011)
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu (2012)
The Telling by Gregory Norman Bossert (2013)
The Prayer of Ninety Cats by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
Do You Like to Look at Monsters? by Scott Nicolay (2015)
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong (2016)
Das Steingeschöpf by G. V. Anderson (2017)
The Birding: A Fairy Tale by Natalia Theodoridou (2018)
Like a River Loves the Sky by Emma Törzs / Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake by Mel Kassel (2019)
Read After Burning by Maria Dahvana Headley (2020)
Glass Bottle Dancer by Celeste Rita Baker (2021)

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