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Dennis E. Bolen is a Canadian novelist, poet, editor, teacher and journalist. His work is often about the Canadian justice system, where he worked for 20 years. The novel Kaspoit! is a fictionalized account of British Columbia's missing women scandal, in which at least 60 women disappeared over a 20-year period.
In 1989 Bolen helped establish the international literary journal sub-TERRAIN and served there as fiction editor for ten years. He has published five novels, three books of short fiction and one book of poetry. The Encyclopædia Britannica's Literature Year In Review 1995 said of his novel Stand In Hell '...focused on the Holocaust from an opposite angle...the story of a teacher with his own sins to contend with who searches for the truth about his grandfather's complicity in Nazi war crimes.'
First published in 1975 (Canadian Fiction magazine), Bolen holds a BA in creative writing from the University of Victoria (1977) and an MFA (writing) from the University of British Columbia (1989). He taught introductory creative writing at UBC from 1995 to 1997.
Bolen has acted as a community editorial board member of the Vancouver Sun, and is on the boards of a literacy advocacy organization, a literary collective and a theatre company. He has written criticism, social commentary, arts advocacy and editorial opinion for numerous journals and newspapers in Canada. Since the mid-1990s he has written literary criticism for The Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Straight, sub-TERRAIN and Event Magazine.
Publications
- Stupid Crimes, novel, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 1992.
- Stupid Crimes (revised), novel, Vintage, Toronto, 1994.
- Stand in Hell, novel, Random House, Toronto, 1995.
- Krekshuns, novel, Random House, Toronto, 1997.
- Gas Tank and Other Stories, short fiction, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 1998.
- Toy Gun, novel, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2005.
- Kaspoit!, novel, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2009.
- Anticipated Results, linked short fiction, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2011.
- "Black Liquor", poetry, Caitlin Press, Halfmoon Bay, 2013.
- Amaranthine Chevrolet, novel, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2025.
References
- ""Black Liquor and the Poetics of Violence": An Interview with Dennis e. Bolen". 6 February 2014.
- "Dennis e. Bolen's Black Liquor captures West Coast working class life". 4 February 2014.
- "Canada Writes - CBC Short Story Prize: Elise Moser, Dennis E. Bolen and Shari Lapeña". Archived from the original on 2014-03-10.
- "Britannica".
- "Book Review: Anticipated Results, by Dennis e. Bolen | National Post". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
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