in Blackstrap Lake, Saskatchewan (2015 and 2016.) His nonfiction book Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos was shortlisted for the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. In April 2021, Heighton released an album of eleven original songs with Wolfe Island Records/CRS Europe. The Devil's Share emerges from "an alchemical bath of blues, rock, folk, country, soul, and Americana." It was recorded at the Post Office Studio, Wolfe Island, Ontario, and produced by Hugh Christopher Brown. Heighton died on April 19, 2022, at the age of 60 of cancer. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. Bibliography Novels The Shadow Boxer (2000) Knopf Canada Afterlands (2005) Knopf Canada Every Lost Country (2010) Knopf Canada The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep (2017) Short stories Flight Paths of the Emperor (1992) The Porcupine's Quill On earth as it is (1995) The Porcupine's Quill The Dead Are More Visible (2012) Knopf Canada Instructions for the Drowning (2023) Biblioasis Poetry Foreign Ghosts (1989) Oberon Press Stalin’s Carnival (1989) Quarry Press The Ecstasy of Skeptics (1994) House of Anansi Press The Address Book (2004) House of Anansi Press Patient Frame (2010) House of Anansi Press The Waking Comes Late (2016) House of Anansi Press Selected Poems: 1983-2020 (2021) House of Anansi Press Nonfiction Reaching Mithymna (2020) Biblioasis Essays The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing & Culture in a Virtual World (1997) House of Anansi Press Workbook (2011) ECW Press The Virtues of Disillusionment (2020) Athabasca University Press Music The Devil's Share (2021) Anthologies and magazines Best American Mystery Stories (James Patterson, ed., Norton, 2015) 70 Canadian Poets (Gary Geddes, ed., Oxford, 2015) Best American Poetry (Mark Doty, ed., Scribner, 2012) Finding the Words (Jared Bland, ed., 2011) The Best Canadian Poetry (Molly Peacock, series ed., Tightrope Books, 2009, 2010, 2011) Best Canadian Stories (Oberon, 1989, ’92, ’95, ’04, ’07) The New Story Writers (John Metcalf, ed., Quarry Press, 1991) Best English Short Stories (David Hughes & Giles Gordon, eds., Heinemann, U.K., 1992) The Minerva Book of Short Stories 5 (Hughes & Gordon, eds., Minerva, U.K., 1993) Best of Best English Short Stories 1986-1995 (Hughes & Gordon, eds., Minerva, 1996) The Journey Prize Anthology 4 (M&S, 1992) The Literature of Work (University of Phoenix Press, 1993) The Second Gates of Paradise (Alberto Manguel, ed., MW&R, 1995) Canadian Short Fiction, second edition (W.H. New, ed., Prentice Hall, 1996) Writing Home (Constance Rooke, ed., M&S, 1997)