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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Kate Hoefler
Kate Hoefler was born and still lives and writes in the rolling hills of Ohio’s Appalachia. She is the author of numerous books and loves the delicate tightrope that picture books stand on between the light that is and the light that could be. Three of her recent books, Rabbit and the Motorbike, Courage Hats, and In The Dark were Ohioana Floyd’s Pick Honor books. Her newest book, The Couch In The Yard, might allow readers to travel above and beyond their couches (wink-wink). She loves small dogs, pottery, being an introvert, and cheese. Follow her on Instagram: @katehoefler
Danny M. Hoey , Jr.
Danny M. Hoey, Jr., is an Assistant Professor of English at Indian River State College. An Ohio native, he received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. His stories have appeared in WarpLand, Women in REDzine, Mandala Journal, Connotation Press, African Voices Magazine, SnReview, The Writer’s Bloc, and The Hampton University First-Year Writing Textbook.…
Read MoreDanny M. Hoey, Jr., is an Assistant Professor of English at Indian River State College. An Ohio native, he received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. His stories have appeared in WarpLand, Women in REDzine, Mandala Journal, Connotation Press, African Voices Magazine, SnReview, The Writer’s Bloc, and The Hampton University First-Year Writing Textbook. His pedagogical essay on teaching Amiri Baraka is forthcoming from the Modern Language Association (MLA) teaching series. The Butterfly Lady, his first novel, won the Foreword Firsts’ Winter 2013 debut fiction award and was recently named a finalist in the Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards.
Annie Hogsett
Annie Hogsett Bio
Annie Hogsett grew up in a remarkably small town in West Virginia and earned her MA in eighteenth-century English literature from West Virginia University. With degree in hand, Annie ditched Keats and Wordsworth, followed a guy to Cleveland, and fell into an advertising agency where she learned how to write compelling fiction on a deadline. And how to swear.
Not counting an early attempt lost to the exercise of better judgment, Annie has completed five novels. Too Lucky to Live, the story of an accidental, and exceedingly lethal, 500-million-dollar MondoMegaJackpot— published by Poisoned Pen Press in May of 2017—was the first to see the light of readers. The second of her Somebody’s Bound To Wind Up Dead Mysteries, Murder to the Metal, was released in June of ‘18, and the third is slated to be published in October.
The tagline for Annie’s series is “Murder. Mayhem. Romance. Cleveland.” And it’s all that. When people ask her, “Where do you get your ideas?” she often says, “I steal them from the City of Cleveland.” For an idea-thieving writers of mysteries, Cleveland—gritty, funky, cool old town, loaded up with history and hardship, magnificence and malfeasance—keeps whispering, “Look! No. Really. Look!” So she does. Ask Annie where she got the first line of Too Lucky to Live, “You know you live in a rough neighborhood when somebody honks at a blind man in the crosswalk.” She’ll be happy to tell you where she found it.
Annie lives within splashing distance of Lake Erie in the neighborhood of Collinwood with her husband, Bill—the aforementioned guy—and their unfortunately aptly-named cat, Cujo.
Sara Holbrook
Sara Holbrook, a resident of Mentor, OH, is the author of over a dozen poetry books for children, teens and books for adults. Her newest book is a middle grade novel, The Enemy, historical fiction. She is a frequent speaker at schools and teacher conferences all over the world. Along with co-author Michael Salinger, she is also the author of four teacher professional books on poetry, vocabulary instruction, and performance.
Robin W. Holland
Robin Holland is a co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project. Robin is a retired public school teacher, having worked with the Columbus City Schools for thirty-five years. Most of her career she was involved in the area of language arts, developing and conducting in-service training with reading and writing initiatives implemented in Columbus Schools and serving on district writing teams to create both reading and writing curriculum guides. She held a number of positions at the building level, including: classroom teacher, gifted educator, Title I Reading Teacher, Intervention Specialist, and Literacy Coach. She also filled several district level positions, including resource teacher for both the reading and Title I departments, and Consulting Teacher with the Peer Assistance and Review Program. Robin has a passion for reading and writing and continues to enjoy instilling that passion in others. She attended The Ohio State University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in education and a Master’s degree in Developmental Reading. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband of twenty-five years.
Emmie J. Holland
Emmie J. Holland is a twenty-something-year-old mom and former third-grade teacher who writes romantic comedy books filled with witty writing, banter, romance, and all the feels. When she is not writing, she enjoys hiking, spending time outdoors, and hanging out with her family.
Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Author Kerrie Hollihan writes award-winning nonfiction for kids and teens. Her new book is BONES UNEARTHED!, third in the Creepy and True series for Abrams Books for Young Readers. Following GHOSTS UNVEILED! The first, MUMMIES EXPOSED!, garnered four four-star reviews.
Kerrie’s books have been honored as “notables” by the Children’s Book Council/National Council for the Social Studies and more. She’s especially thrilled that Mummies! is accessible for vision impaired readers through the Library of Congress. Her very first book, ISAAC NEWTON & PHYSICS FOR KIDS, has been printed in six languages.
Kerrie belongs to the highly regarded nonfiction author group iNK Think Tank and its interactive partner, Authors on Call – http://www.inkthinktank.org. Catch her three-minute talks about lots of things at iNK’s Nonfiction Minute, https://www.nonfictionminute.org.
Kerrie enjoys meeting young readers during school visits both in person and on the web. She offers kid-friendly activities with other nonfiction authors at Hands-on-Books, http://hands-on-books.blogspot.com/.
Kerrie also reaches out to inquisitive older adults–historical societies, book groups, and more–with programs speaking to their life experience. Get in touch on her contact page: https://kerriehollihan.com/contact/
Shannon Holly
Shannon is a Gen X author who grew up reading David Eddings, C.S. Lewis, Anne McCaffrey and watching Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. It’s no wonder she wrote a Star Trek meets Narnia fantasy adventure! That same sense of wonder and excitement she grew up with is what she’s devoted to giving her fans.
Angola Hone
Angola Hone is an independent author and all-twelve-grades done though homeschooling graduate. His debut series for middle grade and young adult fantasy readers, The Canid Chronology, released its first book in August 2024. He penned the original draft in notebooks almost a decade and a half ago, and never outgrew his love for children and YA fiction. To this day, he’s still nostalgic over favorite childhood books such as Redwall and Narnia, as well as stories from movies and video games such as Wall-E, Ratatouille, and Pokémon. As he begins his journey as an author, he hopes to capture the same themes of adventure, heroism, and loving self-sacrifice found in these tales for the next generation.
Sandra K. Horn
Sandra K-Horn (Horn) has worked in education and journalism. She earned a Bachelor of Science in English and Communication from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Education from Otterbein University. She also studied at Ohio University, The Ohio State University, Ashland University, and Harvard University. Sandra taught English and Communications at the high school level. She has an Honorable Mention from the Eric Hoffer Award (2008), was featured in the Ohioana Library Festival (2021), and was on Amazon’s Bestseller list for True Crime Biographies (2024). She has attended The Midwest Writers and Central Ohio Fiction Writers Conferences. Sandra is a member of Pitch 2 Publish, an international writing organization, and the National League of American Pen Women. Sandra actively promotes her books at book signings, clubs, and presentations. Local bookstores in Columbus, Ohio, such as Barnes and Noble, Gramercy Books (Bexley), and Storyline Books (Upper Arlington), carry or will order her books, or you can purchase them on Amazon.