Robin Wasserman

Robin Wasserman is an American young adult author known for novels including Skinned and The Book of Blood and Shadow, who contributed to the Shadowhunter short fiction anthologies within Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles universe. Wasserman was among the authors Clare invited to write original short stories expanding side characters and historical periods within the Shadowhunter world, published across companion collections that supplement Clare's main novel sequences. Beyond her contribution to Clare's universe, Wasserman has built an independent career spanning science fiction, historical fiction, and contemporary YA, often exploring questions of identity, consciousness, and morality within genre frameworks. Her Shadowhunter contribution reflects the franchise's pattern of drawing established YA authors into shorter, more experimental side pieces outside the main series continuity, allowing different authorial voices to explore corners of Clare's world. Wasserman continues to publish her own acclaimed young adult and adult fiction, and her work within the Shadowhunter anthologies represents one part of a broader, genre-spanning career in contemporary speculative fiction for young readers.