Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and, presently, an English teacher. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals, including The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Event, Indiana Review, ARC, Other Voices, and The Capilano Review. She has also had her poetry published in the anthologies Breathing Fire (Harbour, 1995), Hammer and Tongs (Smoking Lung, 1999) and Introductions: Poets Present Poets (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2001) where her work is presented by Don McKay. One of her short stories is featured in The Journey Prize Anthology 12. She currently lives in Victoria, BC.
... A work simultaneously wide-ranging in scope and unified in depth ... Its language is muscular and strong-willed, its poems executed with deadly seriousness and a side-long smirk. Karen Solie is among the best poets of her generation. Modern and Normal is the work of a seasoned, established poet at the top of her game, but in the disguise of a humble second book.--George Murray, The Globe and MailHer technical and formal skill is beyond reproach; in 90-odd pages of ringing, percussive lyrics ... she never seems to put a foot wrong or waste a word.--Lyle Neff, The Vancouver ReviewHer voice is wild and loving all at once, her poems ... are lit by a language so fresh that you long to hear it in private.--Michael Redhill, Nuvo MagazineInstead of pat answers, she offers us something more central, more interesting, and more moving, �the long valley opening at the centre/ of a constant world.'--Rob Winger, Arc Poetry Magazine
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