Sabaa Tahir is an American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series 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.

Tahir has also published non-fiction reviews and essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox.