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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Karen Solie
Her second, Modern and Normal, was published in the fall of 2005, and was included on The Globe and Mail’s list of the best 100 books of that year. Her short fiction appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology 12, and she has also published essays, reviews, and creative non-fiction. She was the University of Alberta’s Writer-in-Residence for 2004/2005, part of the poetry faculty for the Banff Centre for the Arts’ 2005/2006 Wired Writing Studio, and will serve as Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick for 2006/2007. She currently lives in Toronto. |
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Karen
Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest
Saskatchewan. Her first book of poetry, Short Haul Engine,
won the BC Book Prize Dorothy Livesay Award and was shortlisted for the
Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Prize.