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Jessica Khoury is the author of many books for teens and young readers. Her stories have been translated into over a dozen languages and have been finalists for awards like the South Carolina Junior Book Award, the Ignyte Award, the Maine Student Book Award, the Oklahoma Sequoyah Masterlist, the Amelia Bloomer Project, and many more. Her bestselling middle grade debut The Mystwick School of Musicraft was named one of the Best Audiobooks of 2019 by Audible and is one of the Top 20 Most Listened-To children's books of all time.

Jess comes from a family of immigrants and currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her husband and daughters. Her Scottish and Syrian heritage inspires many of her books. She spends free time hiking in the mountains, playing video games, and sketching new characters for new stories.

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