Stephanie Bolster (born 1969)^[1] is aCanadian poet and professor of creative writing atConcordia University,Montreal.^[2]

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from theUniversity of British Columbia.^[3][4] Her first book,White Stone: The Alice Poems, won theGovernor 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 publishedThe Ishtar Gate, featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poetDiana Brebner.^[6] Bolster also acknowledged the support ofHendrika Ruger in previously publishing Brebner's work in years prior.^[7]

• 1993Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing
• 1996Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry
• 1997Contemporary Verse 2 poetry competition
• 1997The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize
• 1998Governor General's Award
• 1998 Poetry Chapbook Contest,Mother Tongue Press
• 1999Gerald Lampert Award
• 2000Lampman-Scott Award
• 2003 Great Blue Heron Poetry Competition,The Antigonish Review

• 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).

• 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 editorMolly Peacock. Toronto:Tightrope Books, 2008.
• Penned: Zoo Poems, edited by Stephanie Bolster,Katia Grubisic, andSimon Reader. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2009.
• Global Poetry Anthology, edited byValerie Bloom, Stephanie Bolster,Frank M. Chipasula,Fred D'Aguiar,Michael Harris,John Kinsella,Sinéad Morrissey,Odia Ofeimun,Eric Ormsby, andAnand Thakore. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2012.

• Stephanie Bolster Faculty Profile, Department of English, Concordia University

• 1969 births
• Living people
• Canadian women poets
• University of British Columbia alumni
• Academic staff of Concordia University
• Governor General's Award–winning poets
• 20th-century Canadian poets
• 21st-century Canadian poets
• 20th-century Canadian women writers
• 21st-century Canadian women writers

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