Dutt
Bio
Puneet Dutt serves as a Poetry Editor at The Fiddlehead. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry London, World Literature Today, Southern Indiana Review, and Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Her debut collection, The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press), was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Her work has also been nominated for Best of the Net.
PTSD south beach, 2016
PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books, 2016), was a Finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize (Phantom Books)
The Better Monsters, 2017
If a book can be a mirror, The Better Monsters reflects what we see in ourselves and in each other. Replete with compelling protagonists and cross-referencing multiple identities, Dutt’s poems masterfully negotiate the cultural complexities of politics, violence, and war in the new century, and explore the lingering effects of racism and the ideas of borders, belonging, and home in North America and beyond. Honest, disarming, and brimming with the harrowing experiences and emotions of the individual, it is a fine debut from one of Canada’s most exciting emerging poets.
Best Canadian Poetry 2026 Anthology
Selected by editor Mary Dalton, the 2026 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in the past year.
Cream City Review
FALL/WINTER 2024 ISSUE: 48.2
Featuring: Martha Silano, Oak Morse, Sarah Beth Childers, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Ann Pedone, Sean Cho A, Puneet Dutt, J. Bailey Hutchinson, Christopher Brean Murray, Dara Yen Elerath & cover art by Tschiegg.
Southern Indiana Review
“Agorathanatophobia” (poem) Fall 2024 Southern Indiana Review.
The Midwest Quarterly
The Midwest Quarterly, Winter 2025 (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Poem: “Divided”.
Work
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Honored
2020 — Longlisted, Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips
2018 — Ontario’s Best Books, NOW Magazine (June 4, 2018)
2018 — Finalist, Trillium Book Award For Poetry (English Language) for The Better Monsters
2018 — Shortlisted, Raymond Souster Award, The Better Monsters
2016 — Breitling Chapbook Prize, Finalist, PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books).