Jennifer Zeynab Maccani

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is the Syrian American author of the debut novel The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018). She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) and Tin House Writers Workshop alum, and a 2017–2020 Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program Literary Arts Fellow in fiction. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, PANK Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, The Normal School, and elsewhere.