Under the shade of the feijoa trees and other stories

Hayley Ann Solomon is an award-winning author and poet.

A Librarian by training, Hayley has been a full time author for some years, winning repeated recognition in commercial genre fiction. In 2017—a new departure—her first poetry collection, Celestial Promise, received a Proverse Supplementary Prize. She travelled to Hong Kong for the launch of her book in November 2017 and was interviewed on Radio Television Hong Kong on Phil Whelan’s Morning Brew programme.

She was educated in both South Africa and New Zealand, majoring in English and Psychology and minoring in philosophy (University of Cape Town). She read for an Honours degree in Library and Information Science—B.Bibl (Hons)—through the University of South Africa, following that up with a Master’s degree in the same subject through the University of Victoria, Wellington.

Hayley lives in Blenheim, the South Island of New Zealand, in an olive grove surrounded by vineyards, with a sulphur crested cockatoo, a Derbyan parakeet and her surgeon husband. A first soprano with the Blenheim Choral Society, she is passionate about singing, and adores Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Handel, also singing contemporary pieces from time to time.