Bolster, Stephanie Bio
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Stephanie Bolster est originaire de Vancouver, elle habite aujourd’hui à Montréal où elle est professeure agrégée de création littéraire à l’Université Concordia.
Elle est l’auteur de trois receuils de poésie dont le premier, White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/Véhicule, 1998), s’est mérité le prix du Gouverneur Général et le prix Gerald-Lampert. Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland and Stewart, 1999) a été finaliste au prix Trillium. Son dernier recueil, Pavilion (M & S), a été publié en 2002. Pierre Blanche; poèmes d'Alice, est paru aux Éditions du Noroît dans une traduction française de Daniel Canty à l'automne 2007.
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Stephanie Bolster was raised in Burnaby, B.C., she studied creative writing at U.B.C. and now teaches writing at Concordia University in Montréal.Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems(Signal/Véhicule), won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award in 1998 and appeared in French with Les Éditions du Noroît in autumn 2007, translated by Daniel Canty. She has also published Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart), which won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart). Her several chapbooks include, most recently, Biodôme (above/ground) and Past the Roman Arena and the Cedar of Lebanon (Delirium).
Stephanie is the editor of The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems (McGill-Queen’s) by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner and is currently guest editing The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2007 (Tightrope), and editing an anthology of poetry pertaining to zoos.
Stephanie is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets.
