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{{Short description|Canadian poet and novelist}}
{{infobox poet
| name             = Danielle Couture
| image            = Dani Couture - Eden Mills Writers Festival - 2012 (DanH-3921) (cropped).jpg
| alt              = Dani Couture at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in 2012
| caption          = Couture at the [[Eden Mills Writers' Festival]] in 2012
| website          = {{URL|danicouture.ca}}
| awards           = [[ReLit Award]] for Poetry <small>(2011)</small>
| occupation       = Novelist, poet, and literary editor
| notable_works    = ''Sweet'' (2010)
| period           = 2006 – Present
| language         = English
| genre            = Poetry, literary fiction
}}
'''Danielle (Dani) Couture''' (born 1978) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] poet and novelist.<ref name=xtra>[http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Weather_loss_and_grief_a_true_Canadian_novel-11221.aspx "Weather, loss and grief: a true Canadian novel"]. ''[[Xtra!]]'', December 8, 2011.</ref>

In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, ''Sweet'', was shortlisted for the [[Trillium Book Award, English|Trillium Book Award in English]] for Poetry<ref name=quill>[https://archive.today/20130630050535/http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=11829 "Emma Donoghue, Ken Sparling nominated for Trillium Book Award"]. ''[[Quill and Quire]]'', May 30, 2011.</ref> and won the [[ReLit Awards|ReLit Award]] for Poetry.<ref name=relit>[http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/10/24/winners-of-the-relit-awards-announced/ "Winners of the Relit Awards Announced"] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20111024202143/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/10/24/winners-of-the-relit-awards-announced/ |date=2011-10-24 }}. ''[[National Post]]'', October 24, 2011.</ref> In 2011, she also received an Honour of Distinction from the [[Writers' Trust of Canada]]'s [[Dayne Ogilvie Prize]].<ref name=xtra />

She is also the literary editor at ''[[This Magazine]]''.

==Biography==
Couture was born on a military base to a [[Geographical distribution of French speakers|francophone]] father and an [[English-speaking world|anglophone]] mother, both of whom were enlisted in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]]. She has lived in ten cities, including [[North Bay, Ontario|North Bay]], [[Vancouver]], [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]] and [[Taichung]], [[Taiwan]]. She currently lives in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]].<ref name=brokenpencil>[http://www.brokenpencil.com/author/stacey-may-fowles/where-the-wild-things-are/ "Where the Wild Things Are"]. ''[[Broken Pencil]]'', July 11, 2011.</ref>

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 (magazine)|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 and Wynn|Wolsak & Wynn]], 2018.<ref>[https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/listen-before-transmit "Listen Before Transmit"]. Wolsak & Wynn</ref>

===Chapbooks===
*''Black Sea Nettle''. Toronto: Anstruther, 2017.

===Novels===
*''Algoma''. Invisible Publishing, 2011

== Awards and recognition ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Award
!Category
!Result
!{{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}
|-
!2010
| rowspan="3" |''Sweet''
|[[Trillium Book Award, English]]
|Poetry||{{Sho}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |2011
|[[Dayne Ogilvie Prize]]
|—
|{{Sho|Honour of Distinction}}
|
|-
|[[ReLit Awards|ReLit Award]]
|Poetry
|{{Won}}
|
|-
!2015
|''YAW''
|[[ReLit Awards|ReLit Award]]
|Poetry||{{Sho}}
|
|}

==See also==
{{Portal| Poetry| Biography| Canada}}
*[[Canadian literature]]
*[[Canadian poetry]]
*[[List of Canadian poets]]
*[[List of Canadian writers]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://danicouture.ca/}}
*{{LibraryThing author|id=couturedani}}
*[http://www.tla1.com/adult_author2.php?id=305/ Dani Couture at TLA]
*[https://www.thepoetryextension.com//dani/ Interview with Dani Couture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116211021/https://www.thepoetryextension.com//dani/ |date=2021-11-16 }} by ''The Poetry Extension''

{{Dayne Ogilvie Prize}}
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[[Category:1978 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian women poets]]
[[Category:Canadian women novelists]]
[[Category:Novelists from Toronto]]
[[Category:Poets from Toronto]]
[[Category:University of Windsor alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian poets]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian novelists]]
[[Category:Canadian LGBTQ poets]]
[[Category:Canadian LGBTQ novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people]]


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