David Sherman is a former United States marine and the author of eight previously published novels about marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked as a sculptor for many years before turning to writing. Along the way he has held a variety of jobs, mostly supervisory and managerial. Today he is a full-time writer and coauthor of the bestselling military science fiction series, Starfist. He lives in Philadelphia.