Zeyn Joukhadar is a Syrian American writer.
Joukhadar is the recipient of the 2021 Stonewall Book Awards and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction for The Thirty Names of Night.
[1][2][3] Zeyn Joukhadar is nonbinary and uses he/him/they pronouns.
[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.