Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. “Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way” (Gawker) and “Intensely engaging” (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative genres with literary ideals, which has earned him the World Fantasy Award (seven times), the Shirley Jackson Award (four times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and France’s vaunted Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the fourth in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover—or learn more of—the extraordinary voice of Jeffrey Ford, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.Included within these pages are:
- Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book
- Author interview
- Complete bibliography
- Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)
- . . . and more!
Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Jeffrey Ford.
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• Introduction by Eric J. Guignard
• Fiction Stories by Jeffrey Ford
o A Natural History of Autumn
o Malthusian’s Zombie
o Boatman’s Holiday
o The Night Whiskey
o A Night in the Tropics
o Incorruptible
• About Jeffrey Ford (A Biography)
• Essay: Why Jeffrey Ford Matters
• In Conversation with Jeffrey Ford
• Scratching the Surface: An Essay by Jeffrey Ford
• A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Jeffrey Ford
• Academic Commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD
• Illustrations by Michelle Prebich
Author, 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 is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, The Twilight Pariah, and Ahab’s Return. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell.
He is the recipient of seven World Fantasy Awards, a Nebula, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, four Shirley Jackson Awards, a Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and a Hayakawa Award. Ford’s fiction has been translated into twenty languages.
In addition to writing, he’s been a professor of literature and writing for thirty years and has been a guest lecturer at Clarion Writing Workshop, The Stone Coast MFA Program, The Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and the Antioch University Writing Workshop.
He lives in Ohio in a 120-year-old farmhouse, surrounded by corn and soybean fields and teaches writing part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.
For more, visit his webpage at: www.well-builtcity.com.
Jeffrey's bibliography (through March, 2019) is listed here: A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Jeffrey Ford.
