Jeffrey Ford

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Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford in 2006.
Born	November 8, 1955 (1955-11-08) (age 52) West Islip, New York
Occupation	Writer, teacher
Nationality	American
Writing period	1981 - present
Genres	Science fiction, fantasy
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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 the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.

He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.1.1 Well-Built City Trilogy 2.2 Collections 3 External links 3.1 Stories by Jeffrey Ford 3.2 Interviews

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, the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

• The Physiognomy (World Fantasy Award)
• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (World Fantasy Award)
• "Creation" (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)
• The Girl in the Glass (2005) (Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original)

Bibliography

Novels

Vanitas
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
The Girl in the Glass

Well-Built City Trilogy

The Physiognomy
The Beyond
Memoranda

Collections

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
The Empire of Ice-Cream

External links

• Jeffrey Ford's official site
• 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
• Read the first two chapters of The Physiognomy at Fantasybookspot.com

Stories by Jeffrey Ford

• "Exo-Skeleton Town" (from The Fantasy Writer's Assistant)
• "The Empire of Ice Cream"
• "After Moreau" Clarkesworld Magazine (April, 2008)

Interviews

• Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com
• Interview Interview for Actusf.com
• The Physiognomy of Jeffrey Ford Interview for SFcrowsnest.com

Persondata
NAME	Ford, Jeffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American author
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	West Islip, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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