Puneet Dutt is a poet and editor. She is a Poetry Editor at The Fiddlehead. Her debut collection, The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press), was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and named one of NOW Magazine’s “Best Books of the Year.” Her chapbook PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books) was a finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize.
Her poems have been featured by Roxane Gay for The Rumpus (forthcoming) and appear in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, as well as in World Literature Today, Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry London, and Southern Indiana Review. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net.
Dutt is a founding member and editorial board director at Canthius. Her chapbook The Roach Queen was longlisted for the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. She holds an MA in English from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Born in New Delhi, India and raised in Jersey City, N.J., Dutt now lives in Markham, Ontario, Canada with her partner and two children. Her work is shaped by migration, precarity, and systems of power, often examining violence, survival, and the afterlives of displacement.
2025
Joined The Fiddlehead as a Poetry Editor.
2018
The Better Monsters is Finalist for the Trillium Book Award For Poetry and was Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and was named one of “Ontario’s Best Books” by NOW Magazine.
2017
The Better Monsters is published.
2010
Moved to Canada.
1985
Born in New Delhi, India