Author Profiles
Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.
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Kimberly Gabriel
Kimberly Gabriel started writing in fourth grade when she wrote, bound, and gave away books of terrible poetry to family and teachers as holiday gifts. Today she is an English teacher, who still squanders all free minutes to write and uses it as the best scapegoat for her laundry avoidance issues. When she is not teaching or writing, Kimberly is enjoying life with her husband, her three beautiful children, and a seriously beautiful boxer in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Every Stolen Breath is her debut novel and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
Carmen Gabriel-Watson
INTRODUCTORY BIO: MY NAME IS CARMEN, AKA “LEGA”CEE”; to ‘Carry’ legs of Rare Breed out of Past Ancestry into…..” I AM WHO I AM & I AM WHO I BE !…. Into the Journey. I have raised two beautiful Intelligent girls, now women; out of that, four awesome grands I am proud of ! Currently, I reside in Saint George, SC with my second daughter. I was Born last of fourteen and bred in Toledo Ohio; Known for its automobile, Jeep and the Glass Capital of the world ; As a Writer and Author, I’ve recently published my first Inspirational book through my poetry, quotes, stories and testimonies, through the life we must live to bear Witness as “Truth Fluid” for the Soul, who believes every Closed window, has an open way out! There is a 2ND & 3RD book underway. As a Creative Writer, I enjoy utilizing my gift for Event planning, Funerals, weddings, graduations; as well as Art of any media and background in Stage Theater. A Multiple participant as 11th place Poetry finalist, public venues of Spoken word in DC, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Completed coursework in Digital Graphics and Web Page Design, Ambassador to Heart & Stroke Association; obtained the High Level Bronze and Volunteer Ambassador awards. As a Two time Stroke Survivor, I am a Story !
Timothy R. Gaffney
Timothy R. Gaffney is a writer and author who was born in Dayton in 1951 and has lived in the region most of his life. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in Columbus in 1974, he worked for the Piqua Daily Call, the Kettering-Oakwood Times and the Dayton Daily News, where he was the aerospace and defense writer for 21 years until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of 15 books about aviation, space, exploration and science, mainly for children and young adults. He is director of communications for the nonprofit National Aviation Heritage Alliance and a volunteer trustee of the United States Air and Trade Show Inc. and Wright B. Flyer Inc. His interests include aviation, photography, bicycling and hiking. He lives in Miamisburg, Ohio with his wife Jean. They have four grown children and two grandchildren.
Chris Garber
Chad Dotson writes about the Reds for Cincinnati Magazine and about baseball in general for ESPN.com. He is also the founder and managing editor of Redleg Nation, a popular site devoted to baseball and the Cincinnati Reds. A longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Chad lives in Virginia with his wife, Sabrina, and two children, Reagan and Casey.
Chris Garber serves as contributing editor and featured writer for Redleg Nation, where he has written about the Reds for more than a decade. Chris lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Katie and their three children.
Dee Garretson
Dee writes middle grade, young adult and adult fiction under her own name and also writes for the Boxcar Children series under the original author’s name. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her family in a book-cluttered house surrounded by a semi-wild garden. Her two cats Piper and Poppy are her writing companions and the stars of Skype visits with book clubs. When Dee is not writing or reading, she is most likely watching old movies, cooking treats to go along with book reading or trying to learn to make jewelry.
David Lee Garrison
The poetry of David Lee Garrison has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and two poems from his book Sweeping the Cemetery were read by Garrison Keillor on his national radio show, The Writer’s Almanac. The title poem from his Playing Bach in the DC Metro was featured by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on his website, American Life in Poetry, and read on the BBC in London. He won the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2009 and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014. His most recent book is Light in the River (Dos Madres Press).
Janice Gary
Janice Gary is the recipient of the Christine White Award for Memoir/Personal Essay and the Ames Award for Essay and is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Literal Latte, Kaleidoscope, The Baltimore Review, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Potomac Review, and Women Speak Out, an anthology from The Crossing Press.…
Read MoreJanice Gary is the recipient of the Christine White Award for Memoir/Personal Essay and the Ames Award for Essay and is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Literal Latte, Kaleidoscope, The Baltimore Review, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Potomac Review, and Women Speak Out, an anthology from The Crossing Press. She leads writing workshops throughout the U.S., including “Writing the Memoir You’ve Been Dreaming About” at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York City. Her book, Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, was released by Michigan State University Press in 2013. For information, visit her website at http://www.janicegary.com.
Paul L. Gaston
In the research, photography, and writing behind Ohio’s Craft Beers, Paul L. Gaston brought his experience as a photojournalist to bear on a lifelong admiration for craft beer and those who brew it. In his “day job,” he teaches English literature and higher education administration at Kent State University. A frequent speaker in national venues, he is the author of five recent books that, alas, are not about beer. His Higher Education Accreditation: How It’s Changing, Why It Must (2014) has proved particularly influential. A resident of Hudson, Ohio, he also serves as Priest Associate at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron.
He is one of four authors of the Degree Qualifications Profile, an important standard for more than 600 colleges and universities. His recent articles consider subjects as varied as early rock ‘n’ roll, the Italian novel, computer dominated futures trading, European higher education reform, George Herbert and the British hymn tradition, and the future of the book.
He earned the M.A. and the Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Paul L. Gaus
P.L. Gaus was born in Athens, Ohio and has lived in Ohio for most of his life. In 1999 he published Blood of the Prodigal: An Ohio Amish Mystery (Ohio Univ. Press, 1999), the first of a series of mysteries set among the Amish in Holmes County, Ohio. The Names of Our Tears, Gaus’ first book for Plume, was published in 2013. Gaus’ extensive knowledge of the culture and lifestyle of the Ohio Amish comes from over thirty-five years of travel throughout Holmes County and the surrounding area, which is home to the world’s largest Amish and Mennonite population. He lectures widely about Amish culture at libraries, bookstores, and literary societies. His novels have been reviewed in prominent journals and newspapers including Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Ohioana Quarterly, and the New York Times Book Review. Visit Paul at http://www.plgaus.com/.
Donna B. Gawell
Donna Gawell is a genealogist, historian, and author of several published books and journal articles. She is a presenter on genealogy, travel, and family history writing for community organizations and church groups. Donna holds volunteer leadership roles with Samaritan’s Purse as a Relay Center Coordinator for Operation Christmas Child and is a Church Coordinator for International Friendships, Inc., a Christian outreach to international students at Ohio State University.
Donna earned a master’s degree in Speech Pathology and worked in the field of education for over thirty years. She lives in Westerville, Ohio with her husband Mark when not traveling to research her ancestral homelands in Europe and New England. Her website “DonnaGawell.com” allows her to reach out to readers with similar passions and interests.