Jasmine Warga (born April 24, 1988) is an American children's and young adult book author.

[5][3] After graduating college, Warga worked as a sixth grade science teacher in Texas.

[3] Warga's debut novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, published in 2015, is about depressed and suicidal teenagers.

Warga was inspired to write the young adult novel after the unexpected death of a close friend.

[6] Her 2019 children's book about a Syrian refugee living in Ohio, Other Words for Home,[7] won a Newbery Honor as well as other awards.