The Waking Comes Late

Steven Heighton is a critically acclaimed novelist and poet. His novels include Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and The Shadow Boxer, a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. His collections of poetry include Stalin’s Carnival, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, poems from which won a gold National Magazine Award and the Petra Kenney Prize; The Ecstasy of Skeptics, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; The Address Book; and Patient Frame. His fiction and poetry have been translated into nine languages, and have appeared in the London Review of Books, Poetry, The Walrus and other publications. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.