Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels
The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque,
the Edgar Award-winning
The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year,
and
The Twilight Pariah
, and his collections include
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace,
and
A Natural History of Hell
. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.