Stephanie
Bolster

Stephanie Bolster has published five books of poetry. Excerpts from her latest book, Long Exposure, were selected as finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’s and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998 and appeared in French as Pierre blanche: poèmes d’Alice, translated by Daniel Canty. Her work has also received the Bronwen Wallace Award, the Norma Epstein Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and The Malahat Review’s long poem prize, among others, and has been translated into Spanish, German, and Serbo-Croatian. Her poems have appeared on the walls of the Ottawa Art Gallery and on Vancouver buses. She has given poetry readings across Canada, from St. John’s to Victoria, and has been interviewed for such programs as CBC's "This Morning" and "The Arts Tonight" and profiled in the Montréal Gazette, Books in Canada, and The Ottawa Citizen. Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and co-editor of Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and grew up in Burnaby, BC. She is a professor of creative writing at Concordia University, where she has taught since 2000, and lives in Pointe-Claire, Québec, located on the Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) territory of Skaniatara:ti.