Karen Enns

{{Short description|Canadian poet}}

Karen Enns is a Canadian poet based in Victoria, British Columbia.[https://quillandquire.com/review/cloud-physics/ "Cloud Physics, by Karen Enns"]. Quill & Quire, April 2017. She is most noted for her 2017 collection Cloud Physics, which won the Raymond Souster Award for poetry in 2018.[https://quillandquire.com/omni/the-league-of-canadian-poets-announces-winners-of-the-2018-annual-poetry-awards/ "The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards"]. Quill & Quire, June 18, 2018.

Enns published her debut poetry collection That Other Beauty in 2010,"Honey days of times past". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, October 30, 2010. and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2011."Dionne Brand, Di Brandt among finalists for poetry's Pat Lowther prize: Brand, Brandt among poetry prize finalists". Canadian Press, April 4, 2011. Her second collection, Ordinary Hours, followed in 2014."Derksen iffy; Enns shines quietly; The Vestiges needs fact checker; Ordinary Hours offers spare grace". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, October 18, 2014.