Education
University of British Columbia. University of Victoria.
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Dennis Bolen
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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.
First published in 1975 (Canadian Fiction magazine), Bolen holds a Bachelor in creative writing from the University of Victoria (1977) and an Master of Fine Arts (writing) from the University of British Columbia (1989). He taught introductory creative writing at University of British Columbia from 1995 to 1997.
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.
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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.
