Puneet Dutt’s debut collection of poetry, The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press), was a Finalist for the 2018 Trillium Book Award For Poetry and was Shortlisted for the 2018 Raymond Souster Award and was named one of “Ontario’s Best Books” by NOW Magazine. Her chapbook, PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books), was a Finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize. Her most recent chapbook manuscript was Longlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Canadian Literature, Crab Orchard Review, The Fiddlehead, The Indianapolis Review, PRISM International, Queen’s Quarterly, Southern Indiana Review and World Literature Today. Dutt was born in New Delhi, raised in Jersey City, NJ and now resides in Markham, Canada with her partner and two kids. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.
