[7] In 2019, she wrote a non-fiction installment of Laurence King Publishing's Little Guides to Great Lives series on Maya Angelou.
[13] Jawando signed a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster, through which she published her debut fiction novel And the Stars Were Burning Brightly in 2020.
[24] Jawando then signed another two-book deal with Simon & Schuster,[25] through which she published her third novel If My Words Had Wings.
The novel follows a teenager named Tyrell who discovers his voice through spoken word poetry in a young offenders' prison.
[26] Suzi Feay of Financial Times named If My Words Had Wings one of the best summer 2024 YA novels.