Karen Solie is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) and The Living Option (Bloodaxe Books, 2013). Her work has appeared in Geist, Indiana Review, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. She served as the International Writer-In-Residence at the University of St. Andrews and as the director of the Banff Centre Writing Studio program.