Krista Vernoff is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer. Currently, she’s the head writer and executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, which she also helped helm for its first seven seasons. A writer and executive producer for Shameless for five years, she has also written for Law & Order, Charmed, and Wonderfalls. Along with the writing staff of Grey’s Anatomy, she won a Writer’s Guild of America Award in 2005 as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best New Television Series, and she was nominated for a Dramatic Writing Emmy for her episode “Into You Like a Train.” As a Grey’s executive producer, she has been nominated twice for the Best Dramatic Series Emmy.