Stephen Henighan
Photo: 1996, Diana MacDonald
Born in Hamburg, Germany and raised on a farm in the Ottawa Valley, Stephen Henighan attended high schools in rural Ontario and Scotland. He studied at universities in Pennsylvania, Colombia, Quebec and England, earning his doctorate in Modern Languages and Literature from Oxford University. He has taught ESL in Colombia and Moldova, creative writing at Concordia University and the Maritime Writers’ Workshop, and Latin American Literature at Oxford and the University of London. At different times, a regular contributor to the literary pages of The Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette and The Ottawa Citizen, Henighan currently reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. His short fiction has been published in more than 30 journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain and Europe. Henighan’s essay collection, When Words Deny the World, was shortlisted for the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award. He teaches Spanish American literature in the Spanish Section, School of Languages and Literatures, at the University of Guelph
