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 (1998), was short-listed for the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Prize. Aitken co-edited, and contributed to, First Writes an anthology published in 2005.

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