Hayley Scrivenor
Hayley Scrivenor is the award-winning author of international best-seller DIRT TOWN. Hayley lives in Wollongong and GIRL FALLING is her second novel.
BottomHayley Scrivenor is the award-winning author of international best-seller DIRT TOWN. Hayley lives in Wollongong and GIRL FALLING is her second novel.
BottomHayley Scrivenor is the author of DIRT TOWN, which was published internationally in 2022 and quickly became a #1 Australian bestseller. The novel has been shortlisted for multiple national and international awards and translated into several languages. In 2023, DIRT TOWN won the ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Mystery and the ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year. Her second novel, GIRL FALLING, was released in Australia in August of 2024.
Hayley has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and lives on Dharawal country, on the east coast of Australia.
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