Steven Heighton (born 1961 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and poet. His debut novel, The Shadow Boxer, was a Canadian bestseller in 2000.

From 1988 to 1994, Heighton was the editor of Quarry, a Canadian literary magazine. He currently lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Books by Steven Heighton

• Stalin's Carnival (1989, poetry)
• Foreign Ghosts (1990, poetry)
• Flight Paths of the Emperor (1993, short fiction)
• The Ecstasy of Skeptics (1995, poetry)
• On Earth as it Is (1995, short fiction)
• The Admen Move on Lhasa (1997, essays)
• The Shadow Boxer (2000, novel)
• The Address Book (2004, poetry)