Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Karen Solie is the author of collections including Short Haul Engine (Brick Books, 2001), winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; Pigeon (House of Anansi Press, 2009), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Award; The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (House of Anansi Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); and Wellwater (House of Anansi Press, 2025). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. She has taught at the University of St Andrews and the Banff Centre.
