Steven Heighton - biography, career, poetry
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Steven Heighton’s first poetry collection, Stalin’s Carnival, was published by Quarry Press in 1989 and won the Gerald Lampert Award for that year. In 1990 he published Foreign Ghosts (Oberon), an Asian travelogue in poetry and prose, in the tradition of the Japanese utaniki, or ’song-diary.’ His third poetry book, The Ecstasy of Skeptics (House of Anansi), was a Governor General’s Award finalist in 1995. He has also published three books of fiction: the short story collection Flight Paths of the Emperor, which was a Trillium Award finalist in 1993 and later appeared in Britain and Australia with Granta Books (a revised edition appears with Vintage Canada in 2001); the story collection On earth as it is, published in Canada in ’95 and overseas in ’97, again by Granta Books (revised edition Vintage Canada 2001); and the novel The Shadow Boxer, published in Canada (Knopf), and in Britain and Australia (Granta) in 2000, and in the USA (Houghton Mifflin) in 2001. Also, in 1997 Anansi published a book of essays, The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing & Culture in a Virtual World.
Heighton’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide-including The Malahat Review, Agni, Europe, Northwest Review, Brick, Best Canadian Stories, Best English Short Stories, Turn of the Story, Poetry Nation, Descant, Confrontation, Exile, Hawaii Review, and Stand---and his work (the short story books, and a number of individual poems and stories) has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, and Lithuanian. He has won the Air Canada Award, a Gold Medal for Fiction in the National Magazine Awards, and first prize in the Prism International short story contest, as well as being nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
From 1988 till 1994 Heighton was the editor of Quarry Magazine, in Kingston, where he lives with his family. He has also been active as a teacher---most recently at the May Studios of the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Tattle Creek Summer Writers’ Workshop in Toronto---as well as a freelance editor and translator. Currently he is working on new poems and translations, and a second novel.
Books & Chapbooks - Poetry
* A Discord of flags: Canadian poets write about the Persian Gulf war. 2nd ed. Toronto: The authors, 1992.
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. The ecstasy of skeptics: poems. Concord, Ont.: House of Anansi, 1994. (poetry}
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. For gods and fathers. Magnum readings; 16. [Ottawa]: Magnum Book Store, 1992. 17 p.
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. Foreign ghosts. [Ottawa]: Oberon Press, c1989. Asian travelogue in poetry and prose, in the tradition of the Japanese utaniki, or ’song-diary’)
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. Stalin’s carnival. New Canadian poets series. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, c1989. (poetry)
Books - Other
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. The admen move on Lhasa: writing and culture in a virtual world. Don Mills, Ont.: House of Anansi Press, 1997. (essays)
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. Flight paths of the emperor. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine’s Quill, c1992. (short stories)
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. On earth as it is. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine’s Quill, 1995. (short stories)
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. On earth as it is. Vintage Canada ed. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001. (short stories)
* Heighton, Steven, 1961. The shadow boxer: a novel. 1st ed. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2000. (novel)
Work in Periodicals
* Heighton’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide-including The Malahat Review, Agni, Europe, Northwest Review, Brick, Best Canadian Stories, Best English Short Stories, Turn of the Story, Poetry Nation, Descant, Confrontation, Exile, Hawaii Review, and Stand---and his work (the short story books, and a number of individual poems and stories) has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, and Lithuanian.
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