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 with her partner, Green Party of Ontario leader Frank de Jong.
[edit] 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)