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.