KAREN SOLIE grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, and The Caiplie Caves –have won or been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, Griffin Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she splits her time between Scotland and Canada.