Kelly Wilk is a freelance writer and graduated from the University of Guelph with an HBA in Theatre and English. She creates poetry, memoir, fiction, fantasy, and mixed media. From 2011 to 2019 she wrote for Pink Play Magazine and their queer parenting blog. In November 2019, Maclean's published her piece "A widowed mother to her son: Your small life was so powerful, it saved mine." She lives with her son in the Beaches neighborhood of Toronto.