Stephanie Bolster’s latest book of poetry,
Long Exposure [
see my review of such here], began as an exploration of
Robert Polidori’s photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl, and extended inward and outward from there. Excerpts from
Long Exposure were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Bolster’s first book,
White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award and was translated into French as
Pierre Blanche. She has been interviewed by
Poetry in Voice,
The Montreal Review of Books and
On Creative Writing,
with further press on her work listed at her website. Her poems have also been translated into Spanish, German, and Serbo-Croatian. She is the author of four chapbooks through above/ground press, including her debut,
Three Bloody Words (1996), as well as
BIODÔME (2006),
Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2016) and
Ghosts (2017). A twentieth anniversary edition of
BIODÔME appears later this spring. Editor of
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and
The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by Diana Brebner, and co-editor of
Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and grew up in Burnaby, BC. She has been
a professor of creative writing at Concordia University since 2000 and lives in Pointe-Claire, Québec, on the Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) territory of Skaniatara:ti.
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