Greg L.  Johnson gives The Starry Rift a good review at SF Site.  He says:

Another way The Starry Rift connects to science fiction’s past is in its size and variety of stories. The Starry Rift is just the kind of big collection that you used to find tucked away on the shelves of the local library, with each story a door into another universe of imagination and wonder. With any luck, that’s just the kind of experience that The Starry Rift will provide for the young readers of today.

Jeffrey Ford is the author of seven novels - Vanitas, World Fantasy Award winner The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. His short fiction, which has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction,  SCI FICTION, Black Gate, The Green Man, Leviathan 3, The Dark, and many year’s best anthologies, and has won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards has been collected in World Fantasy Award winner The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories and The Empire of Ice Cream. He lives in South Jersey with his wife and two sons, and teaches Writing and Literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Upcoming is a new collection, The Drowned Life.