Karen Solie (born 1966) is a

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. Born in

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, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest

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. 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

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. Karen Solie's poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals, including '' Geist'', '' The Fiddlehead'', ''

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''. 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

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, judged the 2012

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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."20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019"

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, January 25, 2019.

Bibliography

*''Short Haul Engine'' (2001) - winner of the 2002

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. ...

, shortlisted for the 2002 Canadian

, the

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, and the

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*''Modern and Normal'' (2005) - shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, longlisted for the 2006

*''Pigeon'' (2009) - winner of the 2010 Canadian

, Pat Lowther Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry *''The Living Option'' (2013) *''The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out'' (2015) *''The Caiplie Caves'' (2019) * ''A sharing economy'',

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#141: Special ''Canada'', 2017, pp 114 – 115

References

External links

Conversation with Karen Solie
by ''The Poetry Extension'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Solie, Karen 1966 births Living people Canadian women poets People from Moose Jaw Writers from Saskatchewan 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian women writers