Haia Mohammed is a 22-year-old poet and former computer programming student from Khan Younis in Gaza, where she lived with her sisters and mother. She has a profound love of the sea, the sky, art, her country and her family, which flows out into her writing. She dreams of travel, of learning and prospering in life so she can support her people and their future.

Her debut poetry pamphlet, The Age of Olive Trees, published in 2025 by Out-Spoken Press was a Guardian ‘Best Recent Poetry’ title.

In 2025, Haia was awarded a full scholarship to study Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She arrived in London in September 2025 to commence her studies, as one of the first group of scholars successfully evacuated from Gaza to the UK.