Krista Vernoff

Krista Vernoff (born October 24, 1971) is an American television screenwriter, executive producer and director. She is best known for running the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2007–11, 2017–2023) and its spin-off Station 19 (2019–2023). She has also served as executive producer and writer for the US version of Shameless. Other works as producer-writer for television include Charmed and Wonderfalls. Vernoff earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Grey's Anatomy; two as a producer for the show's Best Drama Series nominations in 2006 and 2007 which were won and one personal Emmy nomination in 2006 for Best Drama Writing for her episode "Into You Like a Train”, an episode that was highly acclaimed years after its initial airing and hailed as the show's best single episode by The A.V. Club. In 2017, Shonda Rhimes enlisted Vernoff to return to Grey's for its fourteenth season w... ()