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.
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 also single-handedly runs TOKEN Magazine, a literary and arts print magazine featuring under-represented writers and artists.
She has worked in the publishing industry for over six years, most recently working at Puffin, Penguin Random House where she worked as an editor, actively commissioning young fiction, middle-grade and YA/crossover non-fiction and fiction titles. She currently works as an editor on a freelance basis for publishers and individuals.