Hayley Ann Solomon double-majored in English and Psychology (UCT); later graduating with an Honours Baccalaureus Bibliothecologiae (UNISA); followed by a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Science (University of Victoria, Wellington). She has had many fiction novels published internationally, the majority under the Zebra Regency Romance label, New York. She maintains a strong interest in poetic and literary genres, and her work has appeared in several short story anthologies, the most notable being the Momaya Press International Annual Short Story Reviews (2013 and 2015) and Horizons 2: Winning Stories from Page and Blackmore National Short Story Competitions (2015). Career highlights include the following: the choice of her novel, Raven's Ransom (2002), as "Top Pick" by the Romantic Times, her three times selection as Honoree for The Binnacle, University of Maine at Machias (2013-2014), being shortlisted for the Writers' Village International Short Fiction Award (2014); her selection by Compose Literary Journal for 'The Grasses are weeping' (2014;) and being placed first for 'The Chosen One' (New Zealand Society of Authors, Central Districts Competition 2015). She was also a finalist in the New Zealand Heritage Non Fiction Essay Award 2015. In 2016, she achieved Fanstory All time Best Award for her Awdl Gynt cycle poem 'I hardly have the means or heart'. Her ecological poem 'Once green, now gone and grown no more' won a place in Mingled Voices: The Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2016. Ms Solomon says poetry is a passion: she values the rich blend of cadence and cognition that makes poetry uniquely succinct, substantive and beautiful.
Her family's interests represent the cycle of life itself. She represents literature, her surgeon husband healing, her three sons the futures in science, law and computer engineering respectively. She lives amid olive groves and vineyards in Blenheim, New Zealand. She's a bel canto soprano with vibrant pink hair and a strong belief in kindness. (Author biography provided by the author.).