Neil B. Bishop
Neil B. Bishop, writer
Neil Breton Bishop is a Canadian educator, translator, and writer. He was born in B.C. and raised mostly in Saskatchewan; he has also lived in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland, and France. The Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French awarded him both its Best Scholarly Article and Best Scholarly Book prizes. He was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for his translation of Death of the Spider (original: La mort de l’araignée by M. Mailhot, introduction by Marie-Claire Blais) and won First Prize in the prestigious John Dryden International Literary Translation Competition for his translations of poems from A. Perrot-Bishop’s En Longues rivières cachées. Neil Bishop has published his poetry and fiction in French and English, including in the journals Grain, The Chelsea Journal, Brèves, and Marseille.
Lassoing the Stars — Volume 5, Issue 1
In his short story, Lassoing the Stars, Neil B. Bishop propels us into a Space Race Regina winter where a bullied youth, about to commit the irreparable, sees his destiny changed through unexpected events at his part-time supermarket job and the Cold War’s effects on science education in Canada.
