She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies.

Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, on April 6, 1975, and grew up in Los Angeles, California,[2][3][4] where she was raised by her grandparents.

[9][10] Bardugo's debut novel, Shadow and Bone, the first book in the Grisha trilogy, was published in 2012 by Macmillan.

[12][13] The novel hit #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list,[14] and was optioned for film by David Heyman and DreamWorks.

Six of Crows was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA-YALSA Top Ten Pick of 2016.

[10] Bardugo appeared on a Grishaverse panel alongside showrunner Heisserer at New York Comic Con in October 2020.

[28] In September 2012, DreamWorks acquired the movie rights to Shadow and Bone with David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford producing,[29] but the project was not realized.

[36] Alex Stern series Standalones Comics Essays Short stories "The Witch of Duva", "The Too-Clever Fox", and "Little Knife" were later released as a set called Folktales from Ravka in 2015.