Steven Heighton, Kingston ON

2001

Steven Heighton was born in Toronto and raised there and in Red Lake, northern Ontario. He has also lived and worked in Alberta, British Columbia, and Japan, and now lives with his family in Kingston, Ontario, where from 1988 to 1994 he edited Quarry Magazine. For 2002-2003 Heighton is Writer-in-Residence at Concordia University in Montreal, and in 2004 will be Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, Massey College.

Selected Publications:

• The Shadow Boxer. Toronto: Knopf, 2000, Vintage 2001. London, England: Granta Books, 2000, 2001. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Italy: Edizioni E/O, 2003
• The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World. Concord, Ontario: House of Anansi Press, 1997.
• On earth as it is. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1995. London, England: Granta Books, 1997. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001.
• The Ecstasy of Skeptics. Concord, Ontario: House of Anansi Press, 1994.
• Flight Paths of the Emperor. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1992. London, England: Granta Books, 1997. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001.
• Foreign Ghosts. Ottawa, Ontario: Oberon, 1989.
• Stalin's Carnival. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1989.

Awards:

• Petra Kenney Award (poetry) 2002.
• Finalist, Governor General's Award, for The Ecstasy of Skeptics, 1995.
• Finalist, Trillium Award, for Flight Paths of the Emperor, 1993.
• National Magazine Awards, Gold Medal, for fiction, 1992.
• Finalist, Journey Prize, 1992.
• Prism International Short Story Competition, first prize, 1991.
• Gerald Lampert Award, for Best First Book of Poetry, Stalin's Carnival, 1990.
• Air Canada Award, for Poems and Stories Published in Literary Magazines, 1989

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