Danielle (Dani) Couture (born 1978) is a Canadian poet and novelist."Weather, loss and grief: a true Canadian novel". Xtra!, December 8, 2011.
In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, Sweet, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award in English for Poetry. Quill and Quire, May 30, 2011. and won the ReLit Award for Poetry."Winners of the Relit Awards Announced" . National Post, October 24, 2011. In 2011, she also received an Honour of Distinction from the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize.
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."Where the Wild Things Are". Broken Pencil, July 11, 2011.
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."Listen Before Transmit". Wolsak & Wynn
Chapbooks Black Sea Nettle. Toronto: Anstruther, 2017.
Novels Algoma. Invisible Publishing, 2011
Awards and recognition YearTitleAwardCategoryResult2010SweetTrillium Book Award, EnglishPoetry2011Dayne Ogilvie Prize—ReLit AwardPoetry2015YAWReLit AwardPoetry
See also
Canadian literature Canadian poetry List of Canadian poets List of Canadian writers
References
External links
Dani Couture at TLA Interview with Dani Couture by The Poetry Extension