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 April 2025. 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).

Heavensent & Hellbent is her first YA novel which will be published by Delacorte Press in spring 2026.

Represented by Katie Greenstreet