Steven Heighton is the author of nine books, including the bestselling novel, The Shadow Boxer (published in five countries); essays: The Admen Move on Lhasa; and poetry: 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptic and Stalin's Carnival. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. The Shadow Boxer was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 2000. Afterlands, his second novel, has just appeared with Knopf Canada and will soon appear in the USA, Britain and Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands.