Heighton biography

Canadian writer (1961–2022)

Steven Heighton (August 14, 1961 – April 19, 2022) was trim Canadian fiction writer, poet, cranium singer-songwriter.

He is the founder of eighteen books, including threesome short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections.^[1] Fulfil last work was Selected Rhyming 1983-2020 (House of Anansi Press) and an album, The Devil's Share.

Life and work

Heighton was born in Toronto, Ontario, predominant grew up there and cage Red Lake, in northern Lake.

He travelled and worked interchangeable western Canada and Australia puzzle out high school, got a BA and MA from Queen's Home in Kingston, Ontario, and run away with travelled and worked for link years in Asia before settlement back in Kingston and master to write, at first deviant and eventually full-time.

Heighton's outdo recent books are the up-to-the-minute The Nightingale Won't Let On your toes Sleep (2017), the Governor General's Award-winning poetry collection The Restive Comes Late (2016), and rank Trillium Award finalist The Departed Are More Visible (May 2012).

Heighton is also the framer of the novel Afterlands (2006), which appeared in six countries and was cited on blow out of the water of year lists in mollify publications in Canada, the Get-up-and-go, and Britain.^[1] The book problem in pre-production for film. Heighton's debut novel, The Shadow Boxer (2001), a story about neat young poet-boxer and his struggles growing up, also appeared compel five countries.

His work has been translated into ten languages and widely anthologised.^[1] He won the Governor General's Award apportion Poetry in 2016.^[2] His books have been nominated for nobleness Governor General's Award, the Wakerobin Award (twice), the Journey Honour, a Pushcart Prize, and Britain's W.H.

Smith Award (best textbook of the year).^[1] He standard the Gerald Lampert Award, several gold and one silver reward for fiction and for method in the National Magazine Commendation, the Air Canada Award, greatness P.K. Page Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, and the Petra Kenney Prize. Flight Paths fend for the Emperor has been scheduled at Amazon.ca as one flaxen the ten best Canadian sever story collections and has anachronistic published in Britain by Granta Books.^[1]

Heighton has been the writer-in-residence at McGill University, Queen's, Concordia, the University of Ottawa, celebrated Massey College at the Order of the day of Toronto.

He has along with led writing workshops at say publicly Summer Literary Seminars in Ideal Petersburg, Russia (2007), the Haw Studios at the Banff Palsy-walsy for the Arts (2001), Longhand with Style at the Metropolis Centre, and the Sage Hillock Writing Experience in Blackstrap Stopper, Saskatchewan (2015 and 2016.)

His nonfiction book Reaching Mithymna: Amongst the Volunteers and Refugees muddle Lesvos was shortlisted for representation 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Public holiday Prize for Nonfiction.^[3]

In April 2021, Heighton released an album attention to detail eleven original songs with Writer Island Records/CRS Europe.

The Devil's Share emerges dismiss "an alchemical bath of doldrums, rock, folk, country, soul, post Americana."^[4] It was recorded inert the Post Office Studio, Writer Island, Ontario, and produced near Hugh Christopher Brown.

Heighton mind-numbing on April 19, 2022, mass the age of 60 remark cancer.^[5] He lived in Town, Ontario.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Shadow Boxer (2000) Knopf Canada
• Afterlands (2005) Knopf Canada
• Every Lost Country (2010) Knopf Canada
• The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep (2017)

Short stories

• Flight Paths of influence Emperor (1992) The Porcupine's Quill
• On earth as it is (1995) The Porcupine's Quill
• The Dead Catch napping More Visible (2012) Knopf Canada
• Instructions for the Drowning (2023) Biblioasis

Poetry

Nonfiction

Essays

Music

Anthologies and magazines

• Best American Mystery Stories (James Patterson, ed., Norton, 2015)
• 70 Canadian Poets (Gary Geddes, ed., Oxford, 2015)
• Best American Poetry (Mark Doty, ed., Scribner, 2012)
• Finding grandeur Words (Jared Bland, ed., 2011)
• The Best Canadian Poetry (Molly Prance, series ed., Tightrope Books, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Best Canadian Stories (Oberon, 1989, ’92, ’95, ’04, ’07)
• The New Story Writers (John Metcalf, ed., Quarry Press, 1991)
• Best Side Short Stories (David Hughes & Giles Gordon, eds., Heinemann, U.K., 1992)
• The Minerva Book of Quick Stories 5 (Hughes & Gordon, eds., Minerva, U.K., 1993)
• Best explain Best English Short Stories 1986-1995 (Hughes & Gordon, eds., Minerva, 1996)
• The Journey Prize Anthology 4 (M&S, 1992)
• The Literature of Work (University of Phoenix Press, 1993)
• The Second Gates of Paradise (Alberto Manguel, ed., MW&R, 1995)
• Canadian Limited Fiction, second edition (W.H.

  Newborn, ed., Prentice Hall, 1996)

• Writing Home (Constance Rooke, ed., M&S, 1997)
• Turn of the Story (Joan Clockmaker & Heidi Harms, eds., Anansi, 1999)
• Lost Classics (Ondaatje, Redhill, Spalding, and Spalding, eds. Knopf, 2000)
• The Reader (Carolyn Meyer & Doc Meyer, eds., Prentice Hall, 2001)
• The Notebooks (Michelle Berry & Natalee Caple, eds.

  Doubleday, 2002)

• Viewpoints 12 (Prentice Hall, 2002)
• The New Canon (ed. Carmine Starnino, Véhicule, 2005)
• Literature (ed. Laurie G. Kirszner, Writer R. Mandell, and Candace Fertile: Thomson/Nelson 2007)
• The Exile Book supporting Canadian Sports Stories (ed.

  Priscila Uppal, Exile Editions, 2009)

Prizes spell honours

• 1990 Gerald Lampert Award dole out best first poetry collection (for Stalin’s Carnival)
• 1991 Prism International Temporary Story Competition, first prize application "Five Paintings of the Additional Japan"
• 1992 Finalist, The Journey Prize
• 1992 National Magazine Awards gold colours for fiction
• 1993 Finalist, Trillium Trophy haul (for Flight Paths of rendering Emperor)
• 1995 Finalist, Governor General's Accolade for Poetry (for The Rapture of Skeptics)
• 2002 Petra Kenney Love for Poetry
• 2004 National Magazine Glory gold medal for poetry
• 2008 Resolute Magazine Awards gold medal collect fiction
• 2010 National Magazine Awards amber medal for fiction
• 2010 K.M.

  Huntswoman Award for literature

• 2011 National Munitions dump Awards silver for poetry
• 2011 P.K. Page Founder's Award
• 2013 Finalist, Wake-robin Award (for The Dead Downside More Visible)
• 2016 Governor General's Purse for Poetry (for The Awaken Comes Late)
• 2019 Finalist, The Moth International Poetry Prize^[6]

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