Steven Heighton
Heighton is the author, most recently, of a collection of poems called The address book (Anansi 2004). His novel The shadow boxer appeared with Knopf in Canada and was also published by Granta Books in Britain and Australia, by Houghton Mifflin in the USA (a Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year, 2002) and in Italy. Other books include Flight paths of the Emperor (Granta 2000) and The ecstasy of skeptics (Stoddart 1998). His work is translated into eight languages, has been internationally anthologised, and has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the WH Smith Award.
