Julie Kurtness, credited as J. D. Kurtness, is a Canadian writer, who won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose in 2018 for her novel De vengeance.[1] A member of the Innu nation originally from Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, she published De vengeance, her debut novel, in 2017.[2]
Her second novel, Aquariums, was published in French in 2019, with an English translation slated for publication in 2022.[3]