Dani Couture
Template:Short description Template:Infobox poet 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 | Template:Sho | |
| 2011 | Dayne Ogilvie Prize | — | Template:Sho | ||
| ReLit Award | Poetry | Won | |||
| 2015 | YAW | ReLit Award | Poetry | Template:Sho |
See also
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References
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- ↑ a b "Weather, loss and grief: a true Canadian novel". Xtra!, December 8, 2011.
- ↑ "Emma Donoghue, Ken Sparling nominated for Trillium Book Award". Quill and Quire, May 30, 2011.
- ↑ "Winners of the Relit Awards Announced" Template:Webarchive. National Post, October 24, 2011.
- ↑ "Where the Wild Things Are". Broken Pencil, July 11, 2011.
- ↑ "Listen Before Transmit". Wolsak & Wynn
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External links
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian women novelists
- Novelists from Toronto
- Poets from Toronto
- University of Windsor alumni
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people