Steven Heighton was a novelist, poet, and singer-songwriter from Canada. He wrote eighteen volumes, including three collections of short stories, four novels, and seven poetry collections.
Heighton was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, and Red Lake, in northern Ontario. He traveled and worked in western Canada and Australia following high school, earning a BA and MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
His novel, Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2020.
Steven Heighton has died from Cancer. He was just 60 years of age. He went and worked in Asia for two years before returning to Kingston and beginning to write, first part-time and then full-time.
Heighton's work has been widely anthologized and translated into eleven languages. In 2016, he received the Governor General's Award for Poetry. His novels have received nominations for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Award, the Journey Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the W.H. Smith Award in the United Kingdom.
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