Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her third collection of poems, Pigeon, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. A volume of selected and new poems, The Living Option, has just been published in the U.K. by Bloodaxe Books. She is an associate director for the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio program, and is currently based in Toronto.
