Jeffrey Ford

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Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford at Borders Bookstore in 2009.
Born	(1955-11-08) November 8, 1955 West Islip, New York
Occupation	Writer, teacher
Nationality	American
Period	1981–present
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Website
www.well-builtcity.com

Jeffrey Ford at KGB bar, 2006

Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955 in West Islip, New York) 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]

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.

The Physiognomy (1998) (World Fantasy Award)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (2003) (World Fantasy Award)
"Creation" (2003) (World Fantasy Award)
"Botch Town" (2007) (World Fantasy Award)
"The Empire of Ice Cream" (2004) (Nebula Award for Best Novellette)
"Exo-Skeleton Town" (2005) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best translated story)
"The Annals of Eelin-Ok" (2005) (The Fountain Award for excellence in the short story)^[3]
The Girl in the Glass (2005) (Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original)
The Shadow Year (2009) (World Fantasy Award)^[4]
The Shadow Year (2008) (Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel)
The Drowned Life (2009) (World Fantasy Awards)^[4]
“A Natural History of Autumn” (2012) (Shirley Jackson Award)
Crackpot Palace (2012) (Shirley Jackson Award)^[5]

Bibliography

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Novels

Ford, Jeffrey (1988). Vanitas. New York: Space and Time.
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002)
The Girl in the Glass (2005)
The Cosmology of the Wider World (2005)
The Shadow Year (2008)

Well-Built City trilogy

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

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)

Curiosities columns in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Source: ^[6]

Non-Fiction

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.
↑
1 2 World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
↑ The Shirley Jackson Award 2013 Winners July 2012
↑ 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

World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

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)

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)

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