Dani Couture

Danielle (Dani) Couture (born 1978) is a Canadian writer.

Couture was born on a military base to a Francophone father and an Anglophone mother, both of whom were enlisted in the Canadian Forces. She has lived in ten cities, including North Bay, Vancouver, Windsor and Taichung, Taiwan. Dani currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Couture's poetry, essays, reviews and interviews have been published in various literary journals and magazines and anthologies, including The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Taddle Creek, The Fiddlehead, Arc and Canadian Poems for Canadian Kids (2005).

In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, Sweet, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English and won the Relit Award for Poetry. In 2011, she also received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Grant.

Bibliography

Books

• Algoma. Invisible Publishing, Fall 2011.
• Sweet. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2010.
• Good Meat. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2006.

External links

• Dani Couture's home page
• "Welcome to my shoebox", essay in The Globe & Mail
• "The agritourist's edible souvenirs", essay in The Globe & Mail
• Northern Poetry Review
• Dani Couture reading on Authors Aloud
• Gadzooks! article on Dani Couture, Paul Vermeersch and a.rawlings
• Trillium Book Award
• The Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Grant
• 2011 Relit Award Shortlists
• Animal Effigy
• "Salvage" in The Walrus

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Name	Couture, Dani
Alternative names	Couture, Danielle
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Date of birth	1978
Place of birth	North York
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