Sara Jafari

Sara Jafari is a British-Iranian author and editor. She is the author of The Mismatch and People Change (Penguin Random House, 2021 and 2023).

People Change will be published as Things Left Unsaid by St. Martin’s Press in Spring 2025.

Her debut YA romantasy Heavensent & Hellbent will be published by Delacorte, Penguin Random House US in Spring 2026.

Longlisted for Spread the Word's Life Writing Prize, her writing has also been published in gal-dem and The Good Journal, among other publications. She is also a contributor of the essay collection "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour (Walker Books, 2019), and Who’s Loving You (Trapeze, 2021). 

She has worked in the publishing industry for over eight years, at companies such as Harper Collins and Penguin Random House. She currently works as a Senior Editor at Bloomsbury Children’s Books.