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Jeffrey Ford

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American novelist
For the American film editor, seeJeffrey Ford (film editor).

Jeffrey Ford
Ford at Readercon in 2016
Ford atReadercon in 2016
Born (1955-11-08)November 8, 1955 (age 69)
West Islip, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter, teacher
Alma materBinghamton University
Period1981–present
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Website
www.well-builtcity.com
Jeffrey Ford atKGB bar, 2006

Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) is an American writer in thefantastic 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 ofBinghamton University, where he studied with the novelistJohn Gardner.[1]

He lives inOhio and teaches writing part-time atOhio Wesleyan University. He has also taught as a guest lecturer at theClarion Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers (2004 and 2012), TheAntioch University Summer Writing Workshop (2013),LitReactor – 4 Week Online Horror Writing Course (2012),University of Southern Maine'sStonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing (2011), TheRichard 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

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His stories and novels have been nominated multiple times for theWorld Fantasy Award, theHugo Award, theNebula Award, theTheodore Sturgeon Award, theInternational Horror Guild Award, the Fountain Award,Shirley Jackson Award, theEdgar Allan Poe Award, theBram Stoker Award, theLocus Award, theSeiun Award, theGrand Prix de l'Imaginaire, the Nowa Fantastyka Award, and theHayakawa Award.

World Fantasy Award Winners[3]

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

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This list isincomplete; you can help byadding missing items.(February 2016)

Novels

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Well-Built City trilogy

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Novellas

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Short stories

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  • "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]
  • “Mabuse’s Last Scheme” (2024)

Collections

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Curiosities columns inThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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Source:[7]

Nonfiction

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

References

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  1. ^"Jeffrey Ford: Shadow Years",Locus, June 2008, p.7
  2. ^Jeffrey Ford's Bibliography April 2016.
  3. ^World Fantasy Convention (2010)."Award Winners and Nominees". Archived fromthe original on December 1, 2010. RetrievedFebruary 4, 2011.
  4. ^"The Speculative Literature Foundation". Archived fromthe original on January 6, 2009. RetrievedApril 7, 2009.
  5. ^The Shirley Jackson Award 2013 Winners July 2012
  6. ^"Bibliography".Jeffrey Ford's Well-Built City. RetrievedMarch 5, 2020.
  7. ^Curiosities

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