Julie Keith

She was born and brought up near Chicago,^[2] and was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1962 and an M.A. from Concordia University in 1989.^[3] She is married to lawyer Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee.^[4]

Her first collection of short stories, The Jaguar Temple (Nuage Editions, 1995), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1995 Governor General's Awards.^[2] Her second collection, The Devil Out There (Knopf Canada, 1999), won the Quebec Writers' Federation's award for fiction in 2000.^[5]

Keith also won the Quebec Writers' Federation Community Award in 2006.^[6]