Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Wellwater (Picador Poetry), her sixth collection of poetry, is the joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025 (with Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Avidyā). Solie’s previous collections – Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out and The Caiplie Caves – have won the Dorothy Livesay Prize, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Living Option: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books) was published in the UK in 2013. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Karen Solie teaches for half of the year at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the time in Canada. Author photo © Russell Hart
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