Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster (born 1969)[1] is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal.[2]
History
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of British Columbia.[3][4] Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1998. Bolster's current project, "Long Exposure", is a book-length poem that takes as its starting point Robert Polidori's post-disaster photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl.[5]
In 2004, Bolster edited and published The Ishtar Gate, featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poet Diana Brebner.[6] Bolster also acknowledged the support of Hendrika Ruger in previously publishing Brebner's work in years prior.[7]
Awards
- 1993 Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing
- 1996 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry
- 1997 Contemporary Verse 2 poetry competition
- 1997 The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize
- 1998 Governor General's Award
- 1998 Poetry Chapbook Contest, Mother Tongue Press
- 1999 Gerald Lampert Award
- 2000 Lampman-Scott Award
- 2003 Great Blue Heron Poetry Competition, The Antigonish Review
Works
Poetry
- Three Bloody Words (above/ground press, Ottawa, 1996). Chapbook, published in edition of 300.
- Inside A Tent of Skin: 9 Poems from the National Gallery of Ottawa. (Mother Tongue Press, 1998). Limited edition chapbook.
- White Stone: The Alice Poems (Véhicule Editions, 1998).
- Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999).
- Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart, 2002).
- A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (Brick Books, London, ON, 2011).
- Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (above/ground press, Ottawa, 2016).
Edited works
- The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, Diana Brebner, edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Bolster. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, 2004.
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, edited by Stephanie Bolster, series/advisory editor Molly Peacock. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2008.
- Penned: Zoo Poems, edited by Stephanie Bolster, Katia Grubisic, and Simon Reader. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2009.
- Global Poetry Anthology, edited by Valerie Bloom, Stephanie Bolster, Frank M. Chipasula, Fred D'Aguiar, Michael Harris, John Kinsella, Sinéad Morrissey, Odia Ofeimun, Eric Ormsby, and Anand Thakore. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2012.
References
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, p 315, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ McArthur Mooney, Jacob (2013). "Stephanie Bolster". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ Brock University, Canadian Women Poets
- ^ University of British Columbia, UBC Centennial
- ^ "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Ishtar Gate, The | McGill-Queen's University Press". www.mqup.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
- ^ Brebner, Diana (2004). Bolster, Stephanie (ed.). The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems. McGill-Queens University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0773528352.
External links
- Stephanie Bolster Faculty Profile, Department of English, Concordia University
