Kelley Aitken

Kelley Aitken

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" [http://www.sentex.net/~pql/climate.html] (1998), was short-listed for the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Prize [http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/] . Aitken co-edited, and contributed to, "First Writes" [http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/publications/first_writes_2005.htm] an anthology published in 2005.

Aitken lives in Toronto, Ontario with her partner, Green Party of Ontario leader Frank de Jong.

Bibliography

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


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