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 was published as Things Left Unsaid by St. Martin’s Press in the US in April 2025.
Her debut YA romantic fantasy Heavensent & Hellbent will be published by Atom, Hachette (UK) and Delacorte, Penguin Random House (US) in August 2026.
Longlisted for Spread the Word's Life Writing Prize, 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 nine years, at Harper Collins, Penguin Random House and Bloomsbury. Currently, she works part-time as a Senior Editor at Renegade Books, Hachette.
