Dani Couture

Danielle (Dani) Couture (born 1978) is a Canadian poet and novelist.^[1]

Danielle Couture
Couture at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2012
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)
Website
danicouture.ca

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	Shortlisted
2011		Dayne Ogilvie Prize	—	Honour of Distinction
		ReLit Award	Poetry	Won
2015	YAW	ReLit Award	Poetry	Shortlisted

See also

• Poetry portal
• Biography portal
• Canada portal

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers