Stephanie Bolster's first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems (V�hicule Press, 1998), won the Governor General's and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998. She has published three other collections, Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), which won the Archibald Lampman Award, Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart, 2002) and A PAGE FROM THE WONDERS OF LIFE ON EARTH (Brick Books, 2011). Raised in Burnaby, B.C., she now teaches at Concordia University and lives in Pointe-Claire, Qu�bec.