Jabril Yousef Faraj

Jabril Yousef Faraj is an award-winning Young Adult Fantasy author. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Midwest, the nonbinary, Arab-American artist is an Edward R. Murrow award recipient and alumnus of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

Their fiction debut, Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks: The Emerald Tablets, won the 2025 Literary Global Children's Book Award for Best Young Adult Novel, was a finalist for the Children's Book International Award in Fantasy, and runner-up at the New York Book Festival. The second book in the series, Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks: Wings of the Gods, has earned international recognition.

A homeschooled church kid raised on Nancy Drew, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Reading Rainbow, Jabril writes to inspire the next generation with imaginative worlds, dynamic characters and a stubborn belief that the pen is still mightier than the sword.