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."Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aviaq Johnston among winners of 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards". CBC Books, May 31, 2018. A member of the Innu nation originally from Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, she published De vengeance, her debut novel, in 2017."La vengeance anonyme selon J. D. Kurtness". Le Devoir, September 23, 2017.
Her second novel, Aquariums, was published in French in 2019, with an English translation slated for publication in 2022."66 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2022". CBC Books, January 11, 2022.
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