Michael Bishop
Bio: Michael Bishop has published seventeen novels in his twenty-seven
years as a free-lancer, including the Nebula Award-winning No Enemy But
Time (1982); Unicorn Mountain, winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award;
and Brittle Innings (1994), an imaginative study of minor-league
baseball in the Deep South during World War II and winner of the Locus
Award for best fantasy novel. He has written and published two mystery
novels in collaboration with Paul Di Filippo under the joint pseudonym
Philip Lawson, Would It Kill You to Smile? (1998) and Muskrat Courage
(2000).
Bishop's collections of acclaimed short fiction include Blooded on
Arachne (1982), One Winter in Eden (1984), Close Encounters with the
Deity (1986), Emphatically Not SF, Almost (1990), At the City Limits
of Fate (1996), and the recent Golden Gryphon Press gathering of four
novellas, Blue Kansas Sky (2000). Afer its initial publication in The
Missouri Review, his short story "Dogs' Lives" appeared in Best
American Short Stories: 1986 edited by Gail Godwin. His short fiction
has also appeared in The Georgia Review, Playboy, Omni, Asimov's,
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's,
Ellery Queen's, Analog Pulphouse Science Fiction Age and many
original anthologies, including Orbit New Dimensions and
Universe A poetry collection, Time Pieces with a cover by his son
Jamie, appeared in 2000 from Edgewood Press; it features his Rhysling
Award-winning poem "For the Lady of a Physicist."
Bishop is currently writer-in-residence at LaGrange College in
LaGrange, Georgia. He has published essays and reviews; taught in
several fiction-writing workshops, from Haystack at Portland State to
Clarion at Michigan State to Clarion West in Seattle; and edited five
anthologies, including the influential Light Years and Dark (1984),
winner of the Locus Award for best anthology, and three numbers of Nebula
Award volumes (23, 24, and 25). He lives in Pine Mountain, Georgia, with
his wife Jeri, an elementary-school counselor, and is now at work on a
collection of Georgia-based short stories, which he may entitle The Road
Leads Back
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