Jasmine Warga is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, and A Rover’s Story. Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. The Shape of Thunder was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children's and YA Book Award, and has been named to several state award reading lists. A Rover’s Story, her latest novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection, and was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. She is also the author of the young adult novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty different languages.

Her next middle grade novel, A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall, will be published on September 10th, 2024.

Originally from Cincinnati, she now lives in the Chicago area with her family in a house filled with books.