Jeffrey Ford is an author, primarily of fantasy fiction. He also teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College. Ford's stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, MAD Magazine, Weird Tales, Clarkesworld Magazine, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Subterranean, Fantasy Magazine, and have been in collected in anthologies such as 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, and The Doll Collection. His first novel, "Vanitas," was published in 1988.