Author Biography and Bibliography

Resident in Pine Mountain, Georgia, Bishop and his wife, Jeri, a counselor at Rosemont Elementary School in Troup County, have two grown children, Jamie and Stephanie, each of whom is married, and two grandchildren by their daughter and son-in-law. After graduating from the University of Georgia with his masters in English literature in 1969, Bishop taught for four years at the U. S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. After his service career, Bishop taught composition and English literature at the University of Georgia in Athens for two years. He began freelance writing in the early 1970s from his home in Pine Mountain, Georgia, supplementing his income with stints as a substitute teacher in the public schools and as a stringer for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. In 1993, Twentieth Century Fox optioned Bishop's novel Brittle Innings for a film and bought the rights altogether in 1995. (To date, no film has been made.) In 1996, Bishop became writer in residence at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, a position that he has held ever since. He teaches at least one creative-writing course a year and an occasional January interim-term course. He assists other English department members in organizing an art-and-literature conference about every two years, Slipstreaming in the Arts. Currently, Bishop teaches full-time at LaGrange College and has several literary projects in the works, including a collection of Georgia-based stories, Other Arms Reach Out to Me. Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories appeared in May 2003 from Golden Gryphon Press. A nonfiction collection, A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction, appeared in April 2005. He and wife Jeri are longstanding members of the First United Methodist Church of Pine Mountain.





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