Zeyn Joukhadar

Zeyn Joukhadar is a Syrian American writer. Joukhadar is the recipient of the 2021 Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction for The Thirty Names of Night.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Zeyn Joukhadar
Education	University of Connecticut (BS) Brown University (PhD)
Occupation	Writer
Writing career
Notable awards	Stonewall Book Award (2021) Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature (2021)

Website	www.zeynjoukhadar.com

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Zeyn Joukhadar is nonbinary and uses he/him and they/them pronouns.^[4]^[5] Joukhadar is originally from New York City.^[6] Joukhadar holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in pathobiology from Brown University.^[7] 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.^[8]

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.
Joukhadar, Zeyn (2025). “An Incomplete History of Trans Immortality”. In Norris, Denne Michele (ed.). Both/And. HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-341437-2.

2015 Pushcart Prize - "We Will Tell Our Children", first published in Gulf Stream Magazine
2020 Pushcart Prize - "Incantations for Unsung Boys^{[dead link]}", first published in the Columbia Journal