Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) 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 (2004 and 2012), The Antioch University Summer Writing Workshop (2013), LitReactor – 4 Week Online Horror Writing Course (2012), University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing (2011), The Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington, (2010). 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 around the world. 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. World Fantasy Award Winners The Physiognomy (1998) The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (2003) Creation (2003) Botch Town (2007) The Drowned Life (2009) The Shadow Year (2009) A Natural History of Hell, Best Collection (2017) (nominee) Nebula Award for Best Novelette The Empire of Ice Cream (2004) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best translated story Exo-Skeleton Town (2005) The Fountain Award for excellence in the short story The Annals of Eelin-Ok (2005) Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original The Girl in the Glass (2005) Shirley Jackson Award The Shadow Year (2008) (Best Novel) A Natural History of Autumn (2012) Crackpot Palace (2012) (Best Single-Author Short Story Collection) A Natural History of Hell (2016) (Best Single-Author Short Story