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Luxton, Steve, 1946-
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Dates of existence
1946-
History
Steve Luxton was born in 1946 in Coventry, England.
He is a Canadian poet. His family moved to Canada in 1957. He studied at the University of Toronto and Syracuse University. He taught English Literature at John Abbott College, St.-Anne-de-Belle-Vue, Quebec, and Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He was an original editor of Matrix and The Moosehead Review and co-owner and editor of the Montreal publishing company started by Louis Dudek, DC Books, from 1987 to 2012. He left to focus on creating his own work. Luxton was also a founding member of the now-defunct Montreal Storytellers, an oral storytelling group that performed in both Canada and the U.S. He is the author of several collections of poems, e.g., "The Hills that Pass By" (1987), "Luna Moth and Other Poems" (2004), "In the Vision of Birds: New and Selected Poems" (2012), and "The Dying Meteorologist" (2019).
Luxton lives near Ayer's Cliff, the Eastern Townships, Quebec.