Neil Smith is a Montreal-based writer translator. His novel, Boo, published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His 2007 short story collection, Bang Crunch, was selected as a best book of the year by The Washington Post and The Globe and Mail, won the McAuslan First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. The Goddess of Fireflies, Smith’s translation of Geneviève Pettersen’s novel La déesse des mouches à feu, was nominated for the 2016 Governor General’s Award. His latest novel, Jones, published in 2022, was nominated for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.