Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan. She is the author of six collections of poetry. Her most recent, Wellwater, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Governor General's Award for Poetry, recently won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize. She teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and is this year's Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence for Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

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Appears

Sunday Mar 29 2026 • 8:30 PM Eastern

VERSeFest Presents Late Show
Arts Court Black Box Studio

Monday Mar 30 2026 • 2:30 PM Eastern

VERSeFest extra
Carleton University, Dunton Tower 2017

Free

Previously Appeared

Saturday Nov 7 2020 • 7:30 PM Eastern

Official Welcome
Online event

Poetry Sample / In Translation

Read Along

Featured Book

Wellwater: poems

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