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Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is a writer and poet from Palestine. A writer of novels, poetry and short stories, she was born in 1980 in Lebanon and grew up in Jordan. She completed her BSc degree in Civil Engineering at Al-Najah University, Nablus, in 2003, and since then has published three novels and three collections of poetry.

In 2005 she was awarded the Young Creative Writer Award by the Ministry of Culture, followed in 2006 with the Young Writer Award for Poetry from the A. M. Qattan Foundation. Her short story for children, The Red Bird was translated into English in 2011, and La Ahad Yarifu Zumrat Damih (No One Knows Their Blood Type) was published by Dar Al-Adab in January 2013. Maya has presented children's programmes for Palestine TV, worked as a story-teller and an actress, and her passion for writing led her to become director of the Palestine Writing Workshop. She was also editor of Comma Press's  short story collection The Book of Ramallah. Banipal 45 – writers from Palestine (2012) published a chapter from her autobiographical novel Secrets (translated by Nancy Roberts). She currently lives in Jerusalem with her family.

There is both a paperback and an ebook edition of
You can be the Last Leaf.

Her name used to be written Maya Abul Hayyat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Can-Be-Last-Leaf/dp/1571315403

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