Sonia Cotten

{{short description|Canadian writer}}

{{Primary sources|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox writer

|name = Sonia Cotten

|image = Sonia Cotten chez Quai Des Brumes.jpg

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|09|13}}

|birth_place=Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada

|genre = poetry}}

Sonia Cotten (born September 13, 1974) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.

She was born in Rouyn-Noranda and studied human resource management, editorial practices and business communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Cotten was employed at the Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles and at the Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue.{{cite web |url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/cotten-sonia-1171/ |title=Cotten, Sonia |publisher=Infocentre littéraire des écrivains |language=fr}}

In 2002, she published her first poetry collection Changer le Bronx en or. She has also contributed to various poetry magazines. In 2015, she received the Prix Geneviève-Amyot for her poem Pour Jean-Paul Daoust.{{cite web |url=https://www.calq.gouv.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pub_bulletin66_201504291.pdf |title=Bulletin du CALQ |publisher=Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec |date=April 30, 2015 |language=fr}}

Selected works<ref name=lile/><ref name=calq/>

  • Nique à feu (2006)
  • Mon chef c’est mon cœur (2009)
  • Ovalta (2011)
  • Marcher dans le ciel, children's book (2015)

References