Dennis E. Bolen

Dennis E. Bolen is a novelist, editor, teacher, and journalist who has been publishing work since 1975. Bolen holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria (1977) and an MFA in Writing from the University of British Columbia (1989). He taught introductory Creative Writing at UBC from 1995 to 1997. In 1989, Bolen helped establish the international literary journal sub-TERRAIN, where he served as fiction editor for ten years. He has acted as a community editorial board member of The Vancouver Sun newspaper, and other literacy and theatre collectives. Bolen has written criticism, social commentary, arts advocacy, and editorial opinion for a number of journals and newspapers in Canada, and has published 10 books, from novels to poetry collections, including his most recentAmaranthine Chevrolet (Dundurn Press, 2025).

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2009