Jeffrey Ford

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

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]

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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]

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best translated story

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

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original

Shirley Jackson Award [5]

Bibliography

Novels

Well-Built City trilogy

Novellas

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

Curiosities columns in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Source: [7]

Nonfiction

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References

  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 from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ "The Speculative Literature Foundation". Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2009.
  5. ↑ The Shirley Jackson Award 2013 Winners July 2012
  6. ↑ "Bibliography". Jeffrey Ford's Well-Built City. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  7. ↑ Curiosities
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