Born in Montreal, Max Layton now lives in Cheltenham, Ontario. He is the singer-songwriter son of Irving Layton and Betty Sutherland. He has worked at jobs ranging from a BC lumber camp to laying track in Saskatchewan, picking tobacco to apprentice car mechanic. Later, he owned a bookstore, managed a subsidiary of McClelland & Steward and ran his own publishing house. He earned an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto and worked as a high school English teacher until retirement. He is also a published novelist and short story writer. Max went legally blind more than a decade ago; it was during that difficult period that he recorded his first CD, Heartbeat Of Time. However, his eyesight was recently restored thanks to modern science. Max has authored four collections of poetry.

photo by Danielle Marr