Karen Solie

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of six collections of poetry: Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, The Caiplie Caves, and Wellwater. A volume of selected poems, The Living Option, was published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2013. She is the recipient of awards including the Griffin Poetry Prize, Latner Poetry Prize, a Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. The Caiplie Caves was shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize, and her most recent collection, Wellwater, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She teaches creative writing half-time for the University of St Andrews.