Zeyn Joukhadar

Zeyn Joukhadar is a Syrian American nonbinary writer (he/they) originally from New York City, who earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in pathobiology from Brown University before working as a biomedical research scientist and transitioning to writing full-time. Author Website. Notable works include the historical fiction novel The Map of Salt and Stars (2018), winner of the Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, and The Thirty Names of Night (2020/2021), which received the Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Goodreads.