Dani Couture

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Dani Couture is the author of two collections of poetry: Good Meat (Pedlar Press) and Sweet (Pedlar Press). Sweet was nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and won for the ReLit Award. Couture also received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2011. She resides in Toronto. Her debut novel, Algoma (Invisible Publishing), was released in 2011.

Books

Algoma

A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come home through a campaign of letters. Plaintive notes appear around the house—folded squares of paper in the rain reservoir, kitchen sink, and washing machine. Ferd’s mother, Algoma, is also unravelling; attempting to hide her son’s letters, reconnect with her increasingly distant husband, and rebuild her life.

Invisible Publishing - $19.95 - Fiction