Karen Solie

Karen Solie is a Canadian poet from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, known for her work's intellectual rigor, dark wit, and engagement with capitalism, labour, and environmental degradation. Her collection Pigeon (2009) won the Griffin Poetry Prize for a Canadian poet in 2010, as well as the Pat Lowther Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Solie studied English at the University of Lethbridge and has taught creative writing at various institutions, including the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her other collections include Short Haul Engine (2001), Modern and Normal (2005), The Living Option (2013), and The Caiplie Caves (2019). She is also a former editor of the Walrus and has written widely on poetry. Her poetry is characterised by its combination of formal precision with colloquial energy, its use of technical vocabulary, and its willingness to engage with philosophical and social questions through specific, grounded imagery. She divides her time between Canada and the United Kingdom.