Zeyn Joukhadar

Zeyn Joukhadar

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Thirty Names of Night, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award, and The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a Goodreads Choice Awards and Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize finalist. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Salon, The Paris Review, [PANK], and elsewhere and has been included in anthologies such as Letters to a Writer of Color, This Arab Is Queer, and others. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar serves on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and mentors emerging writers of color with the Periplus Collective. He is currently at work on a new novel as well as an immersive theatrical adaptation of The Thirty Names of Night set in New York City, commissioned by Noor Theatre Company. (Photo credit: Leah James, 2023.)

Residency/Fellowship

2024 Sovereignty

Website

zeynjoukhadar.com
@zeyn_joukhadar

Location

Bergamo, Italy