Biography

Puneet Dutt is a Poetry Editor at The Fiddlehead. Her debut collection of poetry The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press) was a 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. Her chapbook, PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books), was a Finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize. She holds a MA in English from Toronto Metropolitan University, and is a founding member and editorial board director at Canthius. Her chapbook “The Roach Queen” was Longlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. Her poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net and are published/forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern Indiana Review and World Literature Today. 

Dutt was born in New Delhi, India, raised in Jersey City, NJ and now resides in Markham, Canada with her partner and two kids.

Growing up, she experienced her childhood in the U.S. as an “undocumented ‘illegal’ alien” and took ESL classes in grade school. She is now a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, but doesn’t feel she belongs anywhere.