About

Dean Bowman is a writer of poetry, essays, and autofiction.

Born in Japan during the Showa era to American parents, he exists between cultures, times, and identities. His work documents longing for days that won't return and worlds that survive only in memory.

By day, he works as a thought partner and strategist. By night, he writes—producing work that gathers through vigil: fragments and essays from fleeting margins.

His poetry and essays have appeared in Emerald City Ghosts, Poetry Quarterly, The Dark Veil, 50 Haikus, Inclement, and elsewhere.

The Shape of What Remains is his autofictional archive. The work blends memory with invention; details are transformed. This is creative writing, not professional counsel.

He writes evidence that someone was here, grieving what passes. Finding beauty in the fleeting. The ache of the transient. The dignity of impermanence.

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