Stephanie Bolster

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Stephanie Bolster (born 1969) [1] is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal. [2]

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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]

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References

  1. 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
  2. McArthur Mooney, Jacob (2013). "Stephanie Bolster". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. Brock University, Canadian Women Poets
  4. University of British Columbia, UBC Centennial
  5. "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  6. "Ishtar Gate, The | McGill-Queen's University Press". www.mqup.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  7. Brebner, Diana (2004). Bolster, Stephanie (ed.). The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems. McGill-Queens University Press. p. 165. ISBN   978-0773528352.