Jeffrey Ford

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Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford at Readercon.jpg
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
Jeffrey Ford at KGB bar, 2006 Jeffrey Ford KGB.jpg
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 worldwide. [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.

Awards for Jeffrey Ford
WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
The Physiognomy1998 World Fantasy Award NovelWon
2005 Seiun Award Translated Long WorkNominated
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant2000 HOMer AwardShort StoryNominated [3]
2001 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated [4]
2001 Nebula Award Short StoryNominated
Malthusian's Zombie2001 Locus Award Short StoryNominated
The Honeyed Knot2002 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
2002 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Beyond2002 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
The Trentino Kid2003 International Horror Guild Award Short FictionNominated [5]
2004 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Creation2003 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionWon
2003 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2003 Hugo Award Short StoryNominated
2003 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
The Weight of Words2003 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
2003 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories2003 World Fantasy AwardCollectionWon
2003 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque2003 World Fantasy AwardNovelNominated
2003 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
Something by the Sea2003 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Beautiful Gelreesh2004 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Empire of Ice Cream2004 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2004 World Fantasy AwardNovellaNominated
2004 Hugo AwardNoveletteNominated
2004 Nebula AwardNoveletteWon
2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science FictionFinalist
2005 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award Foreign Short StoryWon
The Empire of Ice Cream (Collection)2006 Bram Stoker Award Fiction CollectionNominated
2007 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
2007 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
Boatman's Holiday2005 International Horror Guild AwardMid-length FictionNominated
2006 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
A Night in the Tropics2005 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Annals of Eelin-Ok2004 Speculative Literature Foundation Fountain AwardShort StoryWon [6]
2005 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Girl in the Glass2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award Paperback OriginalWon
2007 Nebula AwardNovelNominated
Exo-Skeleton Town2006 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short StoriesWon
A Man of Light2006 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
Giant Land2006 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Cosmology of the Wider World2006 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
2006 British Fantasy Award NovellaNominated
The Scribble Mind2006 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
Botch Town2007 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
2007 World Fantasy AwardNovellaWon
The Night Whiskey2007 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Way He Does It2007 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2007 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
The Shadow Year 2008 Shirley Jackson Award NovelWon
2009 World Fantasy AwardNovelWon
2009 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
The Dreaming Wind2008 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2008 Theodore Sturgeon AwardShort Science FictionFinalist [7]
2009 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
The Drowned Life2008 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Drowned Life (Collection)2009 World Fantasy AwardCollectionWon
2009 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
The Manticore Spell2008 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Under the Bottom of the Lake2008 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Dream of Reason2009 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Seventh Expression of the Robot General2009 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Polka Dots and Moonbeams2011 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Last Triangle2012 Shirley Jackson AwardNoveletteNominated [8]
Daddy Long Legs of the Evening2012 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
A Natural History of Autumn2013 Shirley Jackson AwardShort FictionWon
2013 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
2013 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Crackpot Palace2013 Shirley Jackson AwardCollectionWon
2013 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
The Wish Head2013 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2013 Shirley Jackson AwardNoveletteNominated [9]
Blood Drive2013 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
A Terror2014 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Fairy Enterprise2014 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Hibbler's Minions2015 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Thyme Fiend2016 Shirley Jackson AwardNoveletteNominated [10]
A Natural History of Hell 2017 Shirley Jackson AwardCollectionWon
2017 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
2017 World Fantasy AwardCollectionWon
The Winter Wraith2016 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Witch Hazel2018 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Twilight Pariah2018 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
Ahab's Return2019 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
The Bookcase Expedition2019 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The Best of Jeffrey Ford2021 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
2021 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
Out of Body2021 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
Big Dark Hole2022 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
2022 Locus AwardCollectionNominated

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) [11]

Collections

Curiosities columns in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Source: [12]

Nonfiction

References

  1. ↑ "Jeffrey Ford: Shadow Years", Locus , June 2008, p.7
  2. ↑ Jeffrey Ford's Bibliography April 2016.
  3. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/HOMer_Awards_2001 [ bare URL ]
  4. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards [ bare URL ]
  5. ↑ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html [ bare URL ]
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090106015803/http://www.speclit.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward/2004.php [ bare URL ]
  7. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2008 [ bare URL ]
  8. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2012 [ bare URL ]
  9. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2013 [ bare URL ]
  10. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2016 [ bare URL ]
  11. ↑ "Bibliography". Jeffrey Ford's Well-Built City. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  12. ↑ Curiosities
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