Canadian poet and novelist
Danielle Couture
Occupation Novelist, poet, and literary editor Language English Period 2006 – Present Genre Poetry, literary fiction Notable works Sweet (2010)Notable awards ReLit Award for Poetry (2011) 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
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
See also
References
^ 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" Archived 2011-10-24 at the Library of Congress Web Archives. National Post , October 24, 2011.
^ "Where the Wild Things Are" . Broken Pencil , July 11, 2011.
^ "Listen Before Transmit" . Wolsak & Wynn
External links
Winners Honour of Distinction
Brian Francis , John Miller (2008)
Greg Kearney (2009)
Lisa Foad , George K. Ilsley (2010)
Dani Couture , Matthew J. Trafford (2011)
Mariko Tamaki (2012)
Anand Mahadevan , Barry Webster (2013)
Rae Spoon , Proma Tagore (2014)
Casey Plett , Vivek Shraya (2015)
Gwen Benaway , Jia Qing Wilson-Yang (2016)
Ali Blythe , Eva Crocker (2017)
Trish Salah , Joshua Whitehead (2018)
Joelle Barron , Casey Plett (2019)
Robyn Maynard , Smokii Sumac (2020)
Kama La Mackerel , jaye simpson (2021)
Bilal Baig , Matthew James Weigel (2022)
Gabriel Cholette , Amanda Cordner and David Di Giovanni (2023)