Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of five collections of poetry, and the recipient of awards including the Trillium Poetry Prize, Latner Poetry Prize, Griffin Prize, a Canada Council for the Arts Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her most recent collection, The Caiplie Caves, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. A sixth collection, Wellwater, will be published in 2025. She was the Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for the University of Toronto in 2021, the Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley in 2022, and the inaugural Writer in Residence for York University in 2023. She teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and is the rest of the year in Canada.
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