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Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
In 2024, Bishon became an Academy Award Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist with her dark comedy screenplay, Sucks to Be Stacey. Her high school #MeToo centered screenplay No Fury, and her television pilot, Hire, have also both been shortlisted by The Blacklist / Women In Film for their 2022 feature and 2024 episodic residency programs. In June 2026, Bishon wrote and directed a short horror film called Green Ribbon, based on the folktale about the headless girl who wears a ribbon around her neck, told through a survivor lens. Her work seeks to examine an intersectional feminine experience under patriarchal oppression, revealing the systemic dehumanization that so often plagues girlhood. Paradise Madness explores the autonomy of love and desire in a world that seeks to oppress and control.
Bishon lives in Queens with her partner, two Machiavellian kittens, and an ever-growing collection of Criterion Blu-Rays
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
In 2024, Bishon became an Academy Award Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist with her dark comedy screenplay, Sucks to Be Stacey. Her high school #MeToo centered screenplay No Fury, and her television pilot, Hire, have also both been shortlisted by The Blacklist / Women In Film for their 2022 feature and 2024 episodic residency programs. In June 2026, Bishon wrote and directed a short horror film called Green Ribbon, based on the folktale about the headless girl who wears a ribbon around her neck, told through a survivor lens. Her work seeks to examine an intersectional feminine experience under patriarchal oppression, revealing the systemic dehumanization that so often plagues girlhood. Paradise Madness explores the autonomy of love and desire in a world that seeks to oppress and control.
Bishon lives in Queens with her partner, two Machiavellian kittens, and an ever-growing collection of Criterion Blu-Rays
Author: Bishon Hart
Genres: Genre Fiction
A slow-burn yearning, high-temperature spice, and a love story with a “He will die for her/She will kill for him” vibe.
NEW ADULT Readers who came of age during the dystopian sweep of The Hunger Games series, and more recently devoured Sunrise on the Reaping, will be enraptured again by this pulse pounding dystopian adventure, now with all the maturity, desire and heat of romantasy. The court intrigue and deadly gladiatorial competition is sure to keep readers of Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass turning pages into the night, while the eugenics-based regime and reproductive control will fulfill fans of Ariel Sullivan’s Conform.
In the kingdom of Edenland, where sexual desire and reproduction are outlawed, Princess Marion Light and penniless boxer Nick Barkley, once secret childhood sweethearts, are drawn back into each other’s treacherous orbit when Marion is betrothed to the cruel crown Prince, and Nick enters the royal gladiator games just to see her again. Edenland is a theocracy driven by eugenics and a rigorous caste system. Ruled by the all-powerful North dynasty, citizens are segregated into a “Guardian Class” and Feudal workforce based on their genetic makeup. Sexual reproduction is strictly forbidden under the Indecency Act and made-to-order children are created exclusively in incubators. Eighteen-year-old Marion’s betrothal to Prince Malcolm North launches the Festival of Feats, a month-long gladiatorial game to celebrate their union. Marion is horrified to learn that Feudal Nick Barkley, her only friend from a poverty-stricken childhood, is a contestant that she will be forced to watch compete in three deadly trials. To acknowledge their connection, or to give in to their long-harbored feelings, means certain death for them both. If Marion is to keep Nick alive, she will have to move in secret, weighing her public performance against her inner desire, and her life against love.
Character dynamics such as childhood playmates to forbidden lovers, a love triangle vying between passion and duty, and themes of nature vs societal oppression, invoke Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Marion and Nick are like dystopian Heathcliff and Cathy, their yearning and jealousy is obsessive. Their desire for one another becomes a religion that threatens to upend their respective worlds, and the theocracy that defines Edenland.