About Karen Solie
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1966. She is a Canadian poet based in Toronto, Ontario and St Andrews, Scotland where she teaches at the University of St Andrews. She grew up in “very rural” Saskatchewan, an experience that shaped her works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of four collections of poems including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Award for Poetry. She was International Writer-in-Residence at the University of St Andrews in 2011, and is an Associate Director for the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio programme.Karen Solie's books have been translated into eight languages. They have also been reproduced in anthologies, including the FSG Poetry Anthology (2021), the Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (2019), the sixth edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2018) and the Forward Book of Poetry 2018. His latest collection of poetry, The Caiplie Caves, was one of the finalists for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. Karen Solie was a writer-in-residence at York University in 2023, the guest poet Holloway at the University of California at Berkeley in 2022, and the writer-in-residence Jack McClelland at the University of Toronto in 2021. She was also awarded the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world.Browse all poems and texts published on Karen Solie
