Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton received the 2016 Governor General’s Award for poetry for The Waking Comes Late (Anansi). He was also a finalist in 1995 for The Ecstasy of Skeptics (Anansi). His poetry and stories have received five National Magazine Awards and have appeared in London Review of Books, Poetry (Chicago), Tin House, Brick, Zoe- trope, Best American Poetry, The Walrus, Best English Stories, TLR and five editions of Best Canadian Poetry. He has also published novels, short story collections and two books of essays, and he reviews fiction for The New York Times Book Review.