Steven Heighton is recipient of the Gerald Lampert Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and gold medals for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards. His recent books include the novel 
Every Lost Country and the poetry collection 
Patient Frame. His novel 
Afterlands appeared in six countries, was a New York 
Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was a “best of year” selection in ten publications in Canada, the USA, and the UK.