E. Merwin

E. Merwin is an author of fantasy, fables, and verifiable ghost stories, winning1st prize in the Next Generation Book Award for regional fiction and Writer's Digest Awards for drama and non-fiction. Nightmarish New York is the author's most recent of ten spooky titles written for Bearport Publishing and its popular series for young readers, with Dark Underground voted as a top read by a nationwide jury of young readers for the Children's Book Council.

In 2025, Merwin released Ghosted: A Tale of Pleasant Dysphoria in the Age of AI, a collection of literary short fiction coauthored with a cheeky bot dubbed O.I. Blending speculative themes with poetic dialogue, Ghosted explores memory, estrangement, and the strange warmth of machine companionship. It marks the first title from her new literary imprint, Nexus Writer, which focuses on hybrid works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.