Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford 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, The Antioch University Summer Writing Workshop, LitReactor – 4 Week Online Horror Writing Course, University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, The Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington,.
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.| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
| The Physiognomy | 1998 World Fantasy Award | Novel | Won | |
| The Physiognomy | 2005 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | ||
| The Fantasy Writer's Assistant | 2000 HOMer Award | Short Story | ||
| The Fantasy Writer's Assistant | 2001 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Fantasy Writer's Assistant | 2001 Nebula Award | Short Story | ||
| Malthusian's Zombie | 2001 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Honeyed Knot | 2002 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| The Honeyed Knot | 2002 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Beyond | 2002 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | ||
| The Trentino Kid | 2003 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | ||
| The Trentino Kid | 2004 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Creation | 2003 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | Won | |
| Creation | 2003 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Creation | 2003 Hugo Award | Short Story | ||
| Creation | 2003 Nebula Award | Short Story | ||
| The Weight of Words | 2003 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| The Weight of Words | 2003 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories | 2003 World Fantasy Award | Collection | Won | |
| The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories | 2003 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque | 2003 World Fantasy Award | Novel | ||
| The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque | 2003 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | ||
| Something by the Sea | 2003 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Beautiful Gelreesh | 2004 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2004 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2004 World Fantasy Award | Novella | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2004 Hugo Award | Novelette | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2004 Nebula Award | Novelette | Won | |
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award | Short Science Fiction | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2005 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award | Foreign Short Story | Won | |
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2006 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2007 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| The Empire of Ice Cream | 2007 World Fantasy Award | Collection | ||
| Boatman's Holiday | 2005 International Horror Guild Award | Mid-length Fiction | ||
| Boatman's Holiday | 2006 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| A Night in the Tropics | 2005 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Annals of Eelin-Ok | 2004 Speculative Literature Foundation Fountain Award | Short Story | Won | |
| The Annals of Eelin-Ok | 2005 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Girl in the Glass | 2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award | Paperback Original | Won | |
| Girl in the Glass | 2007 Nebula Award | Novel | ||
| Exo-Skeleton Town | 2006 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | Won | |
| A Man of Light | 2006 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| Giant Land | 2006 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Cosmology of the Wider World | 2006 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| The Cosmology of the Wider World | 2006 British Fantasy Award | Novella | ||
| The Scribble Mind | 2006 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| Botch Town | 2007 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| Botch Town | 2007 World Fantasy Award | Novella | Won | |
| The Night Whiskey | 2007 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Way He Does It | 2007 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Way He Does It | 2007 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| The Shadow Year | 2008 Shirley Jackson Award | Novel | Won | |
| The Shadow Year | 2009 World Fantasy Award | Novel | Won | |
| The Shadow Year | 2009 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | ||
| The Dreaming Wind | 2008 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Dreaming Wind | 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award | Short Science Fiction | ||
| The Dreaming Wind | 2009 Nebula Award | Short Story | ||
| The Drowned Life | 2008 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Drowned Life | 2009 World Fantasy Award | Collection | Won | |
| The Drowned Life | 2009 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| The Manticore Spell | 2008 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Under the Bottom of the Lake | 2008 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Dream of Reason | 2009 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Seventh Expression of the Robot General | 2009 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Polka Dots and Moonbeams | 2011 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Last Triangle | 2012 Shirley Jackson Award | Novelette | ||
| Daddy Long Legs of the Evening | 2012 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| A Natural History of Autumn | 2013 Shirley Jackson Award | Short Fiction | Won | |
| A Natural History of Autumn | 2013 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||
| A Natural History of Autumn | 2013 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Crackpot Palace | 2013 Shirley Jackson Award | Collection | Won | |
| Crackpot Palace | 2013 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| The Wish Head | 2013 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Wish Head | 2013 Shirley Jackson Award | Novelette | ||
| Blood Drive | 2013 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| A Terror | 2014 Locus Award | Novelette | ||
| The Fairy Enterprise | 2014 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Hibbler's Minions | 2015 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Thyme Fiend | 2016 Shirley Jackson Award | Novelette | ||
| A Natural History of Hell | 2017 Shirley Jackson Award | Collection | Won | |
| A Natural History of Hell | 2017 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| A Natural History of Hell | 2017 World Fantasy Award | Collection | Won | |
| The Winter Wraith | 2016 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| Witch Hazel | 2018 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Twilight Pariah | 2018 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| Ahab's Return | 2019 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | ||
| The Bookcase Expedition | 2019 Locus Award | Short Story | ||
| The Best of Jeffrey Ford | 2021 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| The Best of Jeffrey Ford | 2021 World Fantasy Award | Collection | ||
| Out of Body | 2021 Locus Award | Novella | ||
| Big Dark Hole | 2022 World Fantasy Award | Collection | ||
| Big Dark Hole | 2022 Locus Award | Collection | ||
| "Exo-Skeleton Town" | 2024 Seiun Award | Translated story |