For information on new releases and appearances, sign up for her newsletter. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology-and much more. She would be delighted if you visited her at and fairly giddy if you liked her selfies on Instagram.

“Mesmerizing… Bardugo’s New Haven is plausible and frightening, and I was one rapt reader.Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology-and much more. “Ninth House is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” – Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble This book is brilliant, funny, raw, and utterly magnificent – it’s a portal to a world you’ll never want to leave.” – Lev Grossman, bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy “One of the best fantasy novels I’ve read in years. Bardugo’s imaginative reach is brilliant, and this story―full of shocks and twists―is impossible to put down.” – Stephen King on Ninth House “The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people. Praise for Ninth House, Book 1 in the Series: Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.

But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren’t just accidents. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.

Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.

The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo