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 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.
Series
Books
The Girl in the Glass
2005
A Terror
2013
The Empire of Ice Cream
Stories
2004
A Natural History of Hell
2016
Echoes
2019
The Mythic Dream
2019
The Drowned Life
2008
A Meeting in Oz
2013
Haunted Nights
A Horror Writers Association Anthology
2017
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
2013
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
2012
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
2002
The Best Horror of the Year - Volume Five
2013
The Twilight Pariah
2017
Someone in Time
Tales of Time-Crossed Romance
2022
The Living Dead
2008
Rocket Ship to Hell
2013
Out of Body
2020
The Thyme Fiend
2015
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
2015
Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017
Big Dark Hole
And Other Stories
2021
The Shadow Year
2008
Vanitas
1988
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
And Other Stories
2002
Ghosts by Gaslight
2011
The Best of Jeffrey Ford
2020
The Starry Rift
Tales of New Tomorrows
2008
The Cosmology of the Wider World
2005
Crackpot Palace
2012
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012
2012
Drowned Worlds
2016
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
Ahab's Return
or, The Last Voyage
2018
The Beyond
2001
Memoranda
1999
