Glenn Herdling, a graduate of Bucknell University and post-graduate of New York University, began his publishing career in 1987 as an editor and writer at Marvel Comics. He was born and raised in New Jersey where he currently works in the healthcare and financial sectors struggling to make insurance documents read like plain English. He has contributed to numerous published works and has written over 80 comic books, including Spider-Man and Deadpool. Piper Houdini: Nightmare on Esopus Island is Herdling's second book in the Piper Houdini series.