Jessica Khoury (born 7 February 1990) is an American writer of fantasy novels and children's literature. She was born in Toccoa, Georgia on 7 February 1990. She is of Syrian-Scottish descent.
Khoury first attended public school and was then homeschooled from fourth grade through high school. She earned her bachelor's degree in English from Toccoa Falls College in 2010. Her first fantasy novel, Origin, was published in 2012.
Khoury's stories have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Khoury has been a finalist for awards like the South Carolina Junior Book Award, the Ignyte Award, the Maine Student Book Award, the Oklahoma Sequoyah Masterlist, and the Amelia Bloomer Project. She lives with her family in Greenville, South Carolina.
Awards
Year Award Work Result 2017 Rise: A Feminist Book Project The Forbidden Wish 2020 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Middle Grade The Mystwick School of Musicraft 2022 Maine Student Book Award
Published works
Children's literature
The Mystwick School of Musicraft series The Mystwick School of Musicraft (2022) The Midnight Orchestra (2023) The Dark Refrain (2025)
SkyBorn series Sparrow Rising (2021) Call of the Crow (2022) Phoenix Flight (2022)
Other books Rise of the Dragons - The Lost Lands (2020) The Ruby Code (2023) Monster and Apprentice (2026)
Young Adult literature
Corpus series Origin (2012) Vitro (2014) Kalahari (2015)
Other books
The Forbidden Wish (2016) Last of her Name (2019)
Adult literature
The Moorwitch (2025)
References
External links
Author's Website