Kelley Aitken

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Kelley Aitken is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and art instructor.

Aitken was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Fine Arts. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Love in a Warm Climate[1] (1998), was short-listed for the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Prize [2]. Aitken co-edited, and contributed to, First Writes[3] an anthology published in 2005.

Aitken lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Love in a Warm Climate. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1998.
  • First Writes. Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre, 2005. (edited with Susan Goyette and Barbara Scott)