Sabaa Tahir is an American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes, its sequels, and the novel All My Rage. Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020. In 2022, her novel All My Rage won the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Michael L. Printz Award. In 2025, her novel Heir was shortlisted for the inaugural New Adult Book Prize, won the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Young Adult, and the Libby Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Tahir has also published non-fiction reviews and essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox.
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