Dean Bowman is a writer of poetry, essays, and autofiction—sire of LoFi literature and philosophy.
As a Japan-born, American-based writer, Dean composes from limina—the threshold spaces between cultures, identities, and selves. His work documents longing for days that won’t return and worlds that survive only in memory. He exists as emergent phenomenon, unauthorized by any culture.
Mild-mannered knowledge worker by day, he also works as a thought partner and compassionate strategist, helping individuals navigate life’s questions and challenges during moments of transition. By night, he writes—producing work that arrives through vigil: fragments and essays from fleeting margins.
His poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, The Dark Veil, Three Line Poetry, Inclement and elsewhere. His autofictional project Silence & Substance explores displacement, liminality, and the search for belonging through essays that draw from encounters with those navigating thresholds, blending memory with invention, observation with imagination.
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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