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. She holds a MA in English from Ryerson University, and is a founding member and editorial board director at Canthius. Her most recent chapbook manuscript was Longlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. Dutt is an immigrant/settler and currently lives in Markham with her husband and son.