Puneet Dutt received her MA in English from Ryerson University. She is the author of the chapbook PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books), which was a Finalist for the 2016 Breitling Chapbook Prize (Phantom Books). Her work has been published in a number of journals and in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She was born in India and raised in New Jersey. She now resides in Toronto with her husband, where she is an editorial board member at Canthius and a creative writing workshop facilitator with the Toronto Writers Collective. She can be found online at puneetdutt.com.
"Fierce and finely crafted, The Better Monsters distils life's
strangeness in poems that bridge the gap between warning and
augury. A tour-de-force from one of Canada's most promising
writers." --Jim Johnstone, author of The Chemical Life
"In this gripping first collection, Dutt evokes innocence within
and despite the cruel enigma of inevitable arrival. She masterfully
connotes this ironic centre--the empty solace of truth telling: 'so
fast they left us/to get there.'" --Hal Niedzviecki, Broken Pencil
Magazine
"The poems in The Better Monsters teach us how humanity is its own
greatest threat but also its greatest salvation. Dutt's world is
one of greater and lesser evils, where the only virtue is the
beauty that her language provides. Yes, perhaps her poetry is our
best chance to escape our everyday monsters, our monsters within."
--Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Pushcart Prize nominated poet, New York
University, United Nations consultant
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