John Steffler

John Steffler was born in Ontario in 1947. His other books of poetry are An Explanation of Yellow (1981), The Wreckage of Play (1988), and That Night We Were Ravenous (1998). He has also written a children's book, Flghts of Magic (1987), and a novel, The Afterlife of George Cartwright, which won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada first novel award and the Thomas Raddall Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book.