Amy Kelly is a former midwife, now a current therapist specializing in maternal mental health.

Her short stories have appeared in 805 lit+ art, Scribbled, Dear Human, emerge25 (forthcoming), Belladonna's Garden (forthcoming). Her non-fiction in The Yummy Mummy Club and her poetry in Tiger Leaping Review. Amy's YA manuscript Little Acts of Useless Rebellion was second runner up in the 2023 Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. She attended The Yale Writer's Workshop 2021-2024, SFU Writers' Workshop, and was selected for the McLoughlin Gardens Artist in Residency Program 24/25. Waxing Arcadia has been longlisted for the 2025 Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize.

When not writing or working, she is tending to animals on her hobby farm, enjoying her two wonderful neurodivergent teens, or making pottery. Amy's last great adventure was hiking Everest Base Camp at age 40, she hopes 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 is available as an extended edition from Attic Ebooks, “Another Fish in the Sea” appears in Recipes for Romance: A Sweet Valentine’s Day Anthology (2025; #1 New Release for its genre on Kindle) and is available as an extended edition from Attic Ebooks, “Tinsel and Tangled Hearts” appears in The Gift Exchange: A YA Holiday Anthology (2025), and “Gramma's Christmas Eve” appears in Home for the Holidays: A Christmastime Anthology (2025).

Follow Amy on Instagram @amykellywrites, Facebook @amykelly, X/Twitter @Amy_Kellyauthor, TikTok @amy.writes3, or her author website.