Leigh Bardugo is the American author best–known for her young adult Grishaverse fantasy novels that were adapted into the Netflix series Shadow and Bone. Some of her popular series include the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology and King of Scars duology. Bardugo's other bestselling books include Ninth House, Hell Bent and The Familiar. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bardugo lives in Los Angeles, and she is also an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.