Amy Kelly is a former midwife, current therapist, mother of two neurodivergent teens, and farmer on Vancouver Island. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Yummy Mummy Club, her fiction in 805 lit + art, As the Snow Drifts: A Cozy Winter Anthology, Recipes for Romance: A Sweet Valentines Day Anthology (upcoming) and her poetry in Tiger Leaping Review. She has been accepted to the Yale Writers’ Workshop, as a McLoughlin Gardens Artist in Residence, and into the SFU Writer’s Studio. One of her YA manuscripts, Little Acts of Useless Rebellion, was a finalist for the Leapfrog Global fiction prize. Her last great adventure was hiking to Everest Base Camp at forty, she hopes that publishing her books will be her next.

Amy’s short story “A Prairie Tale” appears in As the Snow Drifts: A Cozy Winter Anthology (2024) and “Another Fish in the Sea” appears in Recipes for Romance: A Sweet Valentine’s Day Anthology, to be published in January 2025. Follow Amy on Instagram @amykellywrites or learn more at amykellyauthor.com.