Dennis E. Bolen is a Canadian novelist, poet, editor, teacher and journalist.
In 1989 Bolen helped establish the international literary journal sub-TERRAIN and served there as fiction editor for ten years.
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.'
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.