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.
Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins is the 2010 recipient of the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio, poet Andrew Hudgins is also a past nominee for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won the Poets Prize for his narrative poem, After the Lost War. Born in Texas, Hudgins was educated at Huntingdon College and the Universities of Alabama and Kansas. Hudgins has mentored two generations of poets as a teacher at the University of Cincinnati and at The Ohio State University, where he currently serves as Humanities Distinguished Professor in English.
Rick Huhn
Rick Huhn is the author of the recently released The Chalmers Race (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His previous books include The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great (University of Missouri Press, 2004) and Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (McFarland, 2008). The latter was a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award, presented by SABR to the best baseball book on the Deadball Era published the previous year.…
Read MoreRick Huhn is the author of the recently released The Chalmers Race (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His previous books include The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great (University of Missouri Press, 2004) and Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (McFarland, 2008). The latter was a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award, presented by SABR to the best baseball book on the Deadball Era published the previous year. In addition, Huhn has authored articles on baseball history for various publications, including the Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime (SABR) and Gateway Magazine (Missouri Historical Society). He has also discussed various baseball topics during numerous radio and television interviews. The retired attorney and his wife, Marcia, reside in Westerville, Ohio.
Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter was a sportswriter for the Columbus Dispatch for more than forty years, including the last twenty-four as sports columnist. He is the author of nine books, including Thurberville, Saint Woody, Chic and A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus. He is a native of Hamilton, Ohio, and a graduate of Ohio University.
Annie Hunter Eriksen
Annie Hunter Eriksen is from Wooster, Ohio. Originally from Columbus, she came for the College of Wooster (’13), but stayed after falling in love with Wooster’s undeniable charm and realizing this town has the best ice cream in the world. Annie lives and breathes comics, cats, and coffee and had her first son in November 2022, whom she named after a superhero. Along Came a Radioactive Spider is about famed Marvel artist Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man. This is her second book. Find Annie at http://www.aheriksen.com and on Instagram at @ah_eriksen.
Ryan Huntley
Ryan Huntley is a recent Summa Cum Laude graduate of Upper Arlington High School in Ohio, where he lives with his family in a house his Maltese, Rudy, is kind enough to share with them. A member of the National Honor Society and the Cum Laude Society, an International Baccalaureate Diploma candidate, and a National Merit Finalist, Ryan is pursuing a higher education in the field of computer science with an emphasis on game design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently studying Japanese and hopes one day to live and work in Japan. When not involved in academic endeavors, Ryan can be found performing with various choral ensembles, traveling the world, and playing games until just a bit too late at night.
Stacie Hutton
Stacie Hutton was born in West Virginia and grew up in southeastern Ohio. She is a former teacher and currently serves as a university trustee and designs apps for mobile devices and desktop computers. She is the author of three other books: American History Detective, Jr. Social Studies Investigator, and Was it Possible? Her picture book, Shovelful of Sunshine, uses words from a coal miner’s farewell letter to his family and was recently awarded a Mom’s Choice Gold award. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and children.
Allegra Hyde
Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a “Best Book of 2022” by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and named a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Hyde has received four Pushcart Prizes and an O. Henry Prize. Her work has also been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Travel Writing, The Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. Her fiction, nonfiction, and humor writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and BOMB, among other venues. Hyde has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Artist Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the Jentel Foundation, The Studios at Key West, VCCA, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She lives and writes with her partner, the novelist Ariel Delgado Dixon. https://www.allegrahyde.com/
Aiko Ikegami
Aiko was born in Tokyo, Japan. Since a young age she has loved drawing, painting, and creating stories. At age of 6 she has started learning oil painting. In 1993 Aiko came to the United States where she has studied psychology at Arizona State University. She continued her education at the University of Texas at Austin where she receiving a Ph.D in Neuropharmacology. She worked as a neuropharmacologist and did research on brain chemistry. After working as a neuropharmacologist for years, she followed her heart and decided making picture books. Aiko lives in Ohio with her dog and cat. Aiko also loves gardening and playing cello.
Dayna Ingram
Dayna Ingram grew up in Cincinnati and has since moved to Northern Kentucky where she lives with her wife, their son, and the maximum number of pets allowed by county law. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Antioch College and her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her first novella, EAT YOUR HEART OUT, won accolades from Publishers Weekly (starred review), Rue Morgue, Lambda Literary and others. ALL GOOD CHILDREN is her first full length novel, which has also received starred reviews from industry powerhouses Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, who hailed the book as “a mashup of The Hunger Games, “The Lottery,” Girl, Interrupted, and Auschwitz, with malevolent buzzards thrown in.” It was also named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2016 in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. Dayna is currently seeking agency representation, and her book, All Good Children, is a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the SF/F/Horror category. Follow her @thedingram, dayna-ingram.tumblr.com, or email Dayna_Ingram@yahoo.com.
Ryan Ireland
Ryan Ireland was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1984. He lives in the village of Alpha, Ohio with his wife and three children. He is the Publicity and Marketing Officer at Greene County Public Library, and a strong advocate for public libraries across the country—his writing on this has appeared in Public Library Quarterly and VOYA. His fiction has been published in Fogdog Review, Seems, and Writing on the Edge. In 2009 he was recognized by Glimmer Train as one of the 25 Best New Writers. Beyond the Horizon is his first novel. More about Ryan and his advocacy of libraries can be found at http://www.ryangireland.com