Robin Wasserman is an American novelist and essayist, born on May 31, 1978. She grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University and UCLA. Before becoming an author, she was an associate editor at a children's book publisher.

Wasserman has published multiple books for children and young adults, and two critically acclaimed novels for adults. Her most recent novel, Mother Daughter Widow Wife, was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her nonfiction has been published by VQR, Buzz Feed, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Atlantic.

She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and is on the faculty of the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. She also writes for television.