Zeyn Joukhadar is the Syrian American author of the Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winning novel The Thirty Names of Night (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2020), which he also adapted as an immersive, site-specific theatre piece commissioned by Noor Theatre Company in New York City, as well as The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018), which won the 2018 Middle East Book Award. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Salon, The Paris Review,and elsewhere and has been included in anthologies such as Both/And, Letters to a Writer of Color, This Arab Is Queer, and others. They have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar has received fellowships and residencies from the Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program, the Arab American National Museum, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Camargo Foundation, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). Joukhadar is a fluent Italian speaker, holds a PhD in Medical Sciences with a focus on epigenetics from Brown University, and is currently at work on a new novel.
Joukhadar is represented by Michelle Brower of Aevitas Creative Management. For speaking engagements, he is represented by Books In Common.