E. Merwin is an award-winning author of fantasy, fables and verifiable ghost stories--with Northman's Daughter winning the Next Generation Book Award, 1st prize for regional fiction. As of 2022, Nightmarish New York is her most recent of ten spooky titles written for Bearport Publishing and its award-winning series for young readers. In 2018 Dark Underground was awarded a place on the Children's Choice Book List by the Children's Book Council--selected as a top read by jury of 900 young readers.