Steve Luxton was born in Coventry, England, immigrated as a child to Toronto, Canada. He gained a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto, and an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University where he studied under the poets W.D. Snodgrass and Phillip Booth. He has taught literature and creative writing at Champlain, Vanier and John Abbott Colleges, as well as at Bishop’s and Concordia Universities. In addition to the chapbook, Torrent’s Gate: Thomas Wolfe Visits Quebec, he has published five volumes of poetry: Late Romantics (with Robert Allen and Mark Teicher), the hills that pass by, Iridium, Luna Moth and Other Poems, and In the Vision of Birds. In recognition for his energetic support and promotion of English-language literature in Quebec, he was awarded the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Judy Mappin Community Prize. He lives with his wife the poet Angela Leuck in the Eastern Townships’ village of Hatley."

"The Dying Meteorologist is filled with depth, sensitivity, evocative imagery and a conversational tone that only a genuine poet-teller can muster. Luxton’s finest book to date..." -- Endre Farkas, Author of Quotidian Fever: New & Selected Poems (1974-2007)

"Steve Luxton may not, as of yet, have come to terms with death, but in The Dying Meteorologist, he is at least on friendly terms.... He brings wisdom and a good dose of wit to the everyday memento mori." -- Carolyn Marie Souaid, Author of This World We Invented

"The Dying Meteorologist is a gripping verbal waltz with weighty reflections on love, aging, friendship and death that leaves us contemplating the unpredictable nature of our own lives." -- Marjorie Bruhmuller, Author of The Bell You Hardly Hear

"Steve Luxton’s The Dying Meteorologist poetry cycle has real urgency, suspense, and narrative power, and makes for compel- ling reading. Most of these poems feel as if they ‘arrived,’ were ‘given’ rather than made. If there were any justice, several would find permanent homes in important anthologies." -- Barton Sutter, Three-Time Winner of the Minnesota Book Award & Author, Most Recently, of Nordic Accordion: Poems in a Scandinavian Mood

"The honest, confessional speaker and the bittersweet address are refreshing, as much as the elegiac can be." -- The Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2020