Karen Solie
Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet. Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Karen Solie's poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals, including "Geist", "The Fiddlehead", "The Malahat Review", "Event", "Indiana Review", "Arc Poetry Magazine", "Other Voices", and "The Capilano Review". She has also had her poetry published in the  anthologies "Breathing Fire" (1995), "Hammer and Tongs" (1999), and "Introductions: Poets Present Poets" (2001). One of her short stories was featured in "The Journey Prize Anthology 12" (2000). Solie's poem "Prayers for the Sick" won second place in "Arc" Magazine's 2008 Poem of the Year Contest. Solie was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize, judged the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a judge for the Poetry in Voice Canadian high school poetry recitation competition. In 2014, she was named as a trustee to the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. Her collection "The  Road in Is Not the Same Road Out" was published in 2015. In 2015, she won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. Her newest poetry book, "The Caiplie Caves", was published in 2019.