Julie Houghton Keith[1] is an American-Canadian writer, best known for her short-story collections The Jaguar Temple and The Devil Out There.
She was born and brought up near Chicago,[2] and was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
[3] She is married to lawyer Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee.
[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.