- Steven Hayward
Steven Hayward is a novelist and short story writer born in
Toronto ,Canada . He attended theUniversity of Toronto andYork University . Hayward’s first book, "Buddha Stevens and Other Stories", won the 2001 Upper Canada Writer’s Craft Award; prior to that, the individual stories that would eventually make up this collection were nominated for the Pushcart and Journey prizes, won awards at the University of Greensboro, theUniversity of Arkansas , and theUniversity of Toronto , and had appeared in "The Iowa Review", "Writ", "Exile", "The Southwestern Review", "Fiddlehead", and "Canadian Fiction Magazine".[http://www.amazon.ca Amazon Canada] describes the stories of "Buddha Stevens" as [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1550965204 “intelligent, funny, and engaging volume of postmodern fictions deals with the essential elements of life: love, sex, age, and death.”] The review goes on to say, “Unlike many postmodernists, however, Hayward sticks to very traditional plots and never hides his characters beneath layers of coy obscurity, proving that it is possible to tell a memorable story through an unusual, playful structure.”
Hayward now lives in the
Cleveland Heights ,Ohio and teaches atJohn Carroll University . He has a doctorate fromYork University inShakespeare andLiterary Theory .His first novel, "The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke" was published in Canada in February 2005, and the Italian translation won the
Grinzane Cavour Prize for debut fiction in January 2006.He has published nonfiction on film,
literary theory ,Renaissance drama, Canadian literature andThe Sopranos .He is a member of the
Cleveland East Side Writers group.External links
* [http://www.jcu.edu/english/writing/hayward.html Creative Writing at John Carroll University]
* [http://www.randomhouse.ca/newface/hayward.php Steven Hayward’s page at Random House Canada, including and excerpt from "The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke"]
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