About
A.M. Hayes
Stories, worlds, and the lives within them.
The Writer
With work spanning humor, memoir, and fiction, A.M. Hayes brings a keen eye for human nature and a wry, offbeat sense of humor to stories of modern romance, reinvention, survival, and the unexpected turns that reshape a life.
Dating Over 50 finds comedy in the peculiar realities of modern romance after fifty. Bird Borough turns to the Maine woods for a different kind of storytelling—a richly imagined community whose citizens have lived beside us all along. Surviving is a developing work centered around reinvention that will be introduced more fully as it takes shape.
Across genres, A.M. Hayes is drawn to intelligent characters, close observations, and stories about what happens when the expected plan gives way to something else. She writes from her home in Maine.
Before the Books
Before making writing the center of her work, A.M. Hayes built a career around solving problems, managing people, and navigating complex situations that rarely unfolded according to plan.
Those years sharpened her eye for human nature and gave her an enduring appreciation for the humor and absurdity that can surface even in serious circumstances.
Mexico became another important chapter in that story, adding a different place, culture, and collection of experiences to a life already shaped by change and adaptation.
After her time in Mexico, a serious accident changed the course of her life and began a long period of recovery. The years that followed required patience, resilience, and continual adaptation, reshaping her understanding of survival, reinvention, and what it means to begin again.
Experiences that had once seemed unrelated began finding their way onto the page—sometimes as humor, sometimes as reflection, and sometimes transformed entirely into fiction.
Early Life
A.M. Hayes grew up in Maine, where woods, wildlife, changing seasons, and the rhythms of community formed the landscape of her early life.
That familiarity with the natural world stayed with her. It can be seen most clearly in Bird Borough, where the animals of the Maine woods have neighborhoods, traditions, responsibilities, disagreements, and stories of their own.
Maine continues to shape both her writing and the way she observes the world: with curiosity, patience, and an awareness that much of what matters is easily missed if no one stops to look closely.
Professional Affiliations
A.M. Hayes is a member of:
- The Authors Guild
- Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
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