Karen Solie

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Karen Solie was UNB’s twenty-sixth writer-in-residence for the 2006-2007 academic year. Solie was born in Moose Jaw in 1966, living on a family owned farm with her parents in the south of Saskatchewan. She won the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Prize for her first poetry collection, Short Haul Engine, published in 2001 by Brick Books. Short Haul Engine had Solie nominated for the 2002 Griffen Poetry Prize. In 2005 she released Modern and Normal through the same publisher of her first collection, Brick Books. In 2009 Solie released Pidgeon with the House of Anansi Press, and Pigeon ended up leaving Karen Solie the Canadian Winner of the 2010 Griffin Poetry prize. During her time in residence, Solie gave a reading at the Fredericton public library on February 21st, primarily from Modern and Normal, and she also held a reading at UNB Saint John on March 12th hosted by UNBSJ's Lorenzo Society, also reading from her Mordern and Normal collection. 

Solie was preceded by Catherine_Bush, and succeeded by Patricia_Young.

 

Sources:

 UA Case 191; Section 2; Karen Solie