Jayne Bauling is best known for her ten youth novels which have won several awards, two being DBE-approved school set-works, while a movie version of her Soccer Season trilogy is now on Netflix. She has also written twenty-eight stories for Fundza Literacy Trust. Her most recent novel for youth is Things I Learnt in the Forest. She also writes short stories for adults and youth, as well as poetry, and her short story A Song Sung in Secret was shortlisted for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the third time she has featured on the shortlist. A collection of her short stories will be published by Modjaji Books in 2026. Bauling lives in White River in Mpumalanga.
