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 Climatehttps://web.archive.org/web/20060626205709/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 Writeshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070927175251/http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/publications/first_writes_2005.htm an anthology published in 2005.
Aitken lives in Toronto, Ontario.