Neil Smith (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec.

Smith published his debut book, the short story collection Bang Crunch, in 2007.

[6] It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and The Globe and Mail, won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation,[7] and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

[9] The Goddess of Fireflies, his translation of Geneviève Pettersen's novel La déesse des mouches à feu, was nominated for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.

It is the harrowing story of a pair of siblings attempting to survive the horror show of their family.