Karen Solie

Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet.

Life
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, 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 lives 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 2nd place in ARC Magazine's 2008 Poem of the Year Contest.

Solie was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize, will judge the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a judge for the Poetry In Voice Canadian high school poetry recitation competition.

Recognition
Her 2001 poetry collection, Short Haul Engine, won the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award.

Her 2005 collection, Modern and Normal, was shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Award.

Her 2009 collection, Pigeon, won 2010 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry)

Publications

 * Eating Dirt. Vancouver, BC: Smoking Lung Press, 1998.
 * Short Haul Engine. London, ON: Brick Books, 2001.
 * Modern and Normal. London, ON: Brick Books, 2005.
 * Pigeon. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2009.