Zeyn Joukhadar

Zeyn Joukhadar is nonbinary and uses he/him/they pronouns.^[4][5] Joukhadar is originally from New York City^[6] and has a PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University. Prior to pursuing writing full time, he worked as a biomedical research scientist.^[6] His first novel, The Map of Salt and Stars, was published in 2018.^[7]

• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2018). The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel. Atria Books. ISBN 978-1501169038.
• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2020). The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel. Atria Books. ISBN 978-1982121495.

• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2021). "The Voyeurs". In Kwon, R.O.; Greenwell, Garth (eds.). Kink: Stories. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1982110215.
• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2023). "Tiresias". In Northington, Jenn; Williams, S. Zainab (eds.). Fit For the Gods. Vintage. ISBN 9780593469248.

• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2022). "Catching the Light: Reclaiming Opera as a Trans Arab". In Jahshan, Elias (ed.). This Arab Is Queer. Saqi Books. ISBN 978-0863564789.
• Joukhadar, Zeyn (2023). "On Queerness". In Anappara, Deepa; Soomro, Taymour (eds.). Letters to a Writer of Colour. Vintage. ISBN 978-1529115840.

• 2018 Middle East Book Award - Youth Literature Award

• 2021 Stonewall Book Awards - Barbara Gittings Literature Award
• 2021 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Fiction

• 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist - Historical Fiction
• 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist - Debut Author
• 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize shortlist - Best Published Novel

• 2015 Pushcart Prize - "We Will Tell Our Children," first published in Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
• 2020 Pushcart Prize - "Incantations for Unsung Boys," first published in the Columbia Journal