Karen Solie

Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry—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 Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and have been short-listed for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2025, Wellwater was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Governor General's Award for Poetry, and shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.