Karen Solie
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Karen Solie
Canadian poet Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She was educated at the University of Lethbridge, where she earned a BA, and at the University of Victoria, where she pursued graduate study. In her poems, Solie often tracks a journey, or several journeys at once, following the mind’s movement across changing landscapes.
Solie is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Caiplie Caves (2020), a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize; The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (2015); The Living Option: Selected Poems (2013); Pigeon (2009), which won a Griffin Poetry Prize, a Pat Lowther Award, and a Trillium Book Award; and Short Haul Engine (2001), which won a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her work has also been featured in the anthology Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets (1995) and has been translated into Dutch, French, and Korean.
Solie has served as an associate director of the Banff Centre Writing Studio program and as international writer-in-residence at the University of St. Andrews. She has taught at universities in Canada and the UK, most recently at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. In early 2021, she was a writer-in-residence at Massey College in Toronto. She lives in Toronto.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/karen-solie
