Hayli Thomson is an author from Sydney, Australia, living on beautiful Wangal Country. She writes novels about candid characters for anybody who ever watched Jo March leap a fence and longed to be her best friend. Bizarrely, during her teen years, Hayli was afflicted with a โ€œheadacheโ€ every third Monday in September, when she was left with no option but to stay home from school and watch her favourite female comedians collect Emmys live on the other side of the world. Her debut YA novel, The Comedienneโ€™s Guide to Pride, hit shelves in June 2022. Hayli is represented by Bridget Smith at JABberwocky Literary, New York.