Amy Kelly

Amy Kelly is a former midwife, current therapist, mother of two and farmer on Vancouver Island. She has dedicated her life to women's health advocacy. Amy's non-fiction 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 Valentine’s Anthology, Scribbled, Belladonna’s Garden, emerge25, and two upcoming Christmas Anthologies, and her poetry in Tiger Leaping Review. She has been accepted to the Yale Writers’ Workshop, McLoughlin Gardens Artist in Residency and SFU Writer’s Studio. One of her YA manuscripts was a finalist for the Leapfrog Global fiction prize 2023, and her most recent manuscript ,Waxing Arcadia, was longlisted for the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize in YA 2025 . Her last great adventure was hiking to Everest Base Camp at 40, she hopes that publishing her books will be her next.