Dani Couture

Danielle Couture
Dani Couture at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in 2012
Couture at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2012
OccupationNovelist, poet, and literary editor
LanguageEnglish
Period2006 – Present
GenrePoetry, literary fiction
Notable worksSweet (2010)
Notable awardsReLit 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

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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

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Poetry

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

Chapbooks

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  • Black Sea Nettle. Toronto: Anstruther, 2017.

Novels

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  • Algoma. Invisible Publishing, 2011

Awards and recognition

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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

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References

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