Dani Couture

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Danielle Couture
ReLit Award for Poetry (2011)
Website
danicouture.ca

Danielle (Dani) Couture (born 1978) is a Canadian poet and novelist.[1]

In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, Sweet, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award in English for Poetry[2] and won the ReLit Award for Poetry.[3] In 2011, she also received an Honour of Distinction from the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize.[1]

She is also the literary editor at This Magazine.

Biography

Couture was born on a military base to a francophone father and an anglophone mother, both of whom were enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces. She has lived in ten cities, including North Bay, Vancouver, Windsor and Taichung, Taiwan. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.[4]

Couture's poetry, essays, reviews and interviews have been published in various literary journals and magazines, as well as anthologies, including The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Taddle Creek, The Fiddlehead, Arc and Best Canadian Poems in English.

Selected works

Poetry

  • Good Meat. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2006.
  • Sweet. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2010.
  • YAW. Toronto: Mansfield, 2014.
  • Listen Before Transmit. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 2018.[5]

Chapbooks

  • Black Sea Nettle. Toronto: Anstruther, 2017.

Novels

  • Algoma. Invisible Publishing, 2011

Awards and recognition

Year Title Award Category Result Ref
2010 Sweet Trillium Book Award, English Poetry Shortlisted
2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction
ReLit Award Poetry Won
2015 YAW ReLit Award Poetry Shortlisted

See also

References

  1. ^
    Xtra!
    , December 8, 2011.
  2. Quill and Quire
    , May 30, 2011.
  3. ^ "Winners of the Relit Awards Announced" Archived 2011-10-24 at the Library of Congress Web Archives. National Post, October 24, 2011.
  4. ^ "Where the Wild Things Are". Broken Pencil, July 11, 2011.
  5. ^ "Listen Before Transmit". Wolsak & Wynn

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