Jeffrey Ford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 |
[edit] 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.
He has been the recipient of four World Fantasy Awards: For his second novel The Physiognomy, his short story collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, his short story Creation, and in 2007 his novella Botch Town.
In 2004, he won a Nebula Award for his novellette "The Empire of Ice Cream".
Exo-Skeleton Town won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best translated story in 2005.
The Annals of Eelin-Ok won The Fountain Award (for excellence in the short story) also in 2005.
The Girl in the Glass won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the Best Paperback Original category.
[edit] 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
[edit] Stories by Jeffrey Ford
- "Exo-Skeleton Town" (from The Fantasy Writer's Assistant)
- "The Empire of Ice Cream"
- "After Moreau" Clarkesworld Magazine (April, 2008)
[edit] 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 | |
