Jeffrey Ford

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.

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 worldwide.

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. + Awards for Jeffrey Ford Work !! Year & Award!!Category !!Result !! Ref.

1998 World Fantasy Award Novel 2005 Seiun Award Translated Long Work

2000 HOMer Award Short Story 2001 Locus Award Short Story 2001 Nebula Award Short Story

2001 Locus Award Short Story

2002 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction 2004 Locus Award Short Story

2003 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction 2005 Locus Award Short Story

2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award Paperback Original 2007 Nebula Award Novel

2006 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories

2006 Locus Award Novelette

2006 Locus Award Short Story

2006 Locus Award Novella 2006 British Fantasy Award Novella

2006 Locus Award Novelette

2007 Locus Award Novella 2007 World Fantasy Award Novella 2009 Nebula Award Short Story

2008 Locus Award Short Story

2009 World Fantasy Award Collection

2012 Locus Award Short Story

2013 Shirley Jackson Award Short Fiction 2013 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction

2013 Locus Award Short Story

2014 Locus Award Novelette

2014 Locus Award Short Story

2015 Locus Award Short Story

2016 Shirley Jackson Award Novelette

2017 Shirley Jackson Award Collection 2017 Locus Award Collection 2017 World Fantasy Award Collection "The Ulgrieb Case" (2020) "At Raparata" (2020) "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (2020) "Inn of the Dreaming Dog" (2021) "Monkey in the Woods" (2021) "The Match" (2021) "The Door in the Fence" (2021) "The Last Booth" (2021) "The Return of Grace Malfrey" (2022) "The Golden Hour" (2022) "Beautiful Dreamer" (2022) "Born Blind" (2022) "Seasons Out of Time" (2023) "Pretty Good Neighbor" (2023) "The Pandemonium Waltz" (2023) "The Adherence" (2024) "Gate 9" (2024) "The Visitation" (2024) "Emergency on Floor 2" (2024) “Mabuse’s Last Scheme” (2024)

Curiosities columns in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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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 the end matter of the 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, January 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, December 27, 2004. Essay on "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James for Fantastic Metropolis, December 24, 2004. Essay on "The Hell Screen" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Fantastic Metropolis, December 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.