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

Danielle Couture
Couture at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2012
Website
danicouture.ca

In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, Sweet, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English[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 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 and 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

• 2011 Relit Award for Poetry
• 2011 Shortlisted for Trillium Book Award for Poetry
• 2011 Honour of Distinction Dayne Ogilvie Prize

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers

References

External links

• Official website
• Dani Couture at TLA
• Interview with Dani Couture by The Poetry Extension

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