Dani Couture

Background

Couture was born on a military base to a francophone father and an anglophone mother, both of whom were enlisted in the Canadian Forces.

Career

She has lived in ten cities, including North Bay, Vancouver, Windsor and Taichung, Taiwan. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. 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 Best Canadian Poems in English." She is the literary editor at This Magazine.

2011 Relit Award foreign

Achievements

• 2011 Relit Award for Poetry 2011 Shortlisted for Trillium Book Award for Poetry 2011 Honour of Distinction Dayne Ogilvie Prize.