Dr Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly (born 1996) is a New Zealand poet, taonga pūoro practitioner, cellist, composer, music therapist and scriptwriter.
[16] Reviewer Jessie Neilson for Takahē described the work as demonstrating "an inner strength, and ... a deep respect for the land and its people, and all that both can offer for future generations".
[19] Solly's work has been published in various literary magazines including Starling, Landfall, Sport and others, and anthologised in Best New Zealand Poems (2019), Aotearoa Poetry Yearbook 2021, Out Here: an anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa (Auckland University Press, 2021) and A Kind of Shelter (Massey University Press, 2023).
[2] Solly is a member of the Tararua musical quartet together with Ariana Tikao, Al Fraser and Phil Boniface.
[22][23] Solly composed the work Te Karanga o ngā Whētu (the stories of the stars) for the group, which premiered at the Wellington Jazz Festival in 2021.
[24] She is also part of the Maianginui taonga pūoro ensemble of women, together with Tikao, Te Kahureremoa Taumata and Khali-Meari Materoa.
[2] In 2024, Solly held an exhibition of 248 pūtangitangi that she created from clay harvested from the earth, called (Pū)oro[26].