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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Elise Meyers Walker

​Elise Meyers Walker earned degrees from Hofstra University and Ohio University. A former board member of the Columbus Historical Society and the Ted Lewis Museum in Circleville, she describes herself as an analyst, researcher, performer, author, organizer, project manager, event planner, teacher, saleswoman, Lego artist, mother, and adventuress. Her particular interest is true crime. Learn more at: https://www.explodingstove.com/.Read More
​Elise Meyers Walker earned degrees from Hofstra University and Ohio University. A former board member of the Columbus Historical Society and the Ted Lewis Museum in Circleville, she describes herself as an analyst, researcher, performer, author, organizer, project manager, event planner, teacher, saleswoman, Lego artist, mother, and adventuress. Her particular interest is true crime. Learn more at: https://www.explodingstove.com/.
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Mark Miesse

Mark Miesse is an up and coming author with a current focus on children’s poetry. His poetry is focused around younger children up to the tween years. The majority of his poetry is inspired by the likes of his own children and some of the goofy parenting sayings that he has most likely annoyed his children with through out the years.…Read More

Mark Miesse is an up and coming author with a current focus on children’s poetry. His poetry is focused around younger children up to the tween years. The majority of his poetry is inspired by the likes of his own children and some of the goofy parenting sayings that he has most likely annoyed his children with through out the years. Mark currently lives in Medway, Ohio. He was born a buckeye and has been his only place called home.

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Candice Millard

Candice Millard is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense Pick, won the William Rockhill Nelson Award, was a finalist for the Quill Awards, and has been published in multiple foreign editions. …Read More

Candice Millard is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense Pick, won the William Rockhill Nelson Award, was a finalist for the Quill Awards, and has been published in multiple foreign editions. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, the PEN Center USA award for Research Nonfiction, the One Book-One Lincoln Award, the Ohioana Award, and the Kansas Notable Book Award.

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill, was an Indie Next pick, a top ten critics pick by the New York Times and named Amazon’s number one history book of 2016. Millard’s most recent book, released in May of 2022, is River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile. She is the recipient of the 2017 BIO Award, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, the Guardian, National Geographic and Time magazine. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children. https://www.candicemillard.com/

Sophie Miller

Sophie Miller is a New York Times Bestselling author and mixed-media artist, originally from Yorkshire, England. She has a BA in Textiles. She likes to write, walk, garden and visit the library with her kids. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Andy J. Pizza. She can be found on instagram (@thethreadhouse).Read More

Sophie Miller is a New York Times Bestselling author and mixed-media artist, originally from Yorkshire, England. She has a BA in Textiles. She likes to write, walk, garden and visit the library with her kids. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Andy J. Pizza. She can be found on instagram (@thethreadhouse).

Robert Ernest Miller

Robert Earnest (Bob) Miller is a native of the Cincinnati area, having grown up in Bridgetown. He currently resides in Warren County, Ohio. Miller earned his PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches history at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College. Miller is the author of Cincinnati: The War Years (2004) and Hamilton County Parks (2006).…Read More

Robert Earnest (Bob) Miller is a native of the Cincinnati area, having grown up in Bridgetown. He currently resides in Warren County, Ohio. Miller earned his PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches history at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College. Miller is the author of Cincinnati: The War Years (2004) and Hamilton County Parks (2006). He has worked on several public history projects at the local, state and national level, including the award-winning World War II exhibit entitled “Cincinnati Goes to War: A Community Responds to Total War” for the Cincinnati Museum Center. For more information about Miller, check him out online at amazon.com/Robert-Earnest-Miller

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Brandon Marie Miller

Brandon Marie Miller earned her degree in American History from Purdue University. She writes about famous people and common folk, about great events and everyday life. Her award-winning books for young people have been honored by the International Reading Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Library Association, the Society of School Librarians International, Voice of Youth Advocates, Bank Street College, the Junior Library Guild, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library, among others.…Read More

Brandon Marie Miller earned her degree in American History from Purdue University. She writes about famous people and common folk, about great events and everyday life. Her award-winning books for young people have been honored by the International Reading Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Library Association, the Society of School Librarians International, Voice of Youth Advocates, Bank Street College, the Junior Library Guild, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library, among others.
Brandon encourages readers to think of history as the greatest story of all. Fiction has nothing on history for tales of courage, sacrifice, redemption, cruelty and betrayal. As a writer of history Brandon aims to inspire readers with stories of people who have struggled, overcome great odds, and made a contribution to our human spirit. It’s no coincidence that “story” is right there in the word history!
Born and raised in Illinois, Brandon lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. When not researching and writing, she loves to read biographies and murder mysteries, travel, play games, attend the ballet, watch sports and old movies from the 1930s and 1940s, and enjoy great conversation. She includes her middle name on all her books so people know she is a girl named “Brandon”
Find out more:
http://www.brandonmariemiller.com
http://hands-on-books.blogspot.com

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Patricia Miller

Patricia Miller grew up in a small town in Ohio and has worked as a mental health clinical counselor for the past 30+ years. She fell in love with mysteries with the help of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and science fiction via Star Trek. Patricia is the award-winning author of 6 published books but she is especially proud of her middle grade mystery collections which form out a collaboration between herself and young art students from Ohio.…Read More

Patricia Miller grew up in a small town in Ohio and has worked as a mental health clinical counselor for the past 30+ years. She fell in love with mysteries with the help of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and science fiction via Star Trek. Patricia is the award-winning author of 6 published books but she is especially proud of her middle grade mystery collections which form out a collaboration between herself and young art students from Ohio. Her mental health expertise and training have been the driving force behind her current project which is creating a children’s mindfulness picture book series aimed at being an aid to therapists, teachers and/or parents, to help kids learn specific effective coping skills which can not only help with emotion management but also lay the foundation for healthy mental health before problems surface. Patricia also has a science fiction trilogy for young adults, which shows that even a young scientific phenom has issues fitting in to this world we call Earth. Patricia is best known for her relatable characters, clever twists & turns, and feel-good endings.

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Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller is a middle-grade author and former camp counselor originally from Kent, Ohio. He loves snow, coffee, and visiting schools to connect with young readers. His mom, a 2018 heart transplant recipient, has always inspired him to face life with humor and heart. He is the author of The Nerdy Dozen series, middle-grade books about video games, friendship, top-secret aircrafts, positivity, and ostriches.…Read More

Jeff Miller is a middle-grade author and former camp counselor originally from Kent, Ohio. He loves snow, coffee, and visiting schools to connect with young readers. His mom, a 2018 heart transplant recipient, has always inspired him to face life with humor and heart. He is the author of The Nerdy Dozen series, middle-grade books about video games, friendship, top-secret aircrafts, positivity, and ostriches. His latest middle-grade novel, Rare Birds, is authentically inspired by his personal experience of living through his own parent’s heart transplant. Miller currently lives in Chicago, where he keeps asking his cats for writing advice. Learn more at his website: https://www.jeffmillerbooks.com/

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Robert Miltner

Robert Miltner is the author of a book of short stories and of several collections of poetry. And Your Bird Can Sing: Short Fiction, published by Bottom Dog Press in 2014, has been nominated for 2015 Ohioana Book Award in Fiction. Hotel Utopia, a 2011 collection of prose poetry, was selected by National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles for the 2009 New Rivers Press Many Voices Poetry Prize and was subsequently a finalist for the 2012 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry.…Read More

Robert Miltner is the author of a book of short stories and of several collections of poetry. And Your Bird Can Sing: Short Fiction, published by Bottom Dog Press in 2014, has been nominated for 2015 Ohioana Book Award in Fiction. Hotel Utopia, a 2011 collection of prose poetry, was selected by National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles for the 2009 New Rivers Press Many Voices Poetry Prize and was subsequently a finalist for the 2012 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. His ten chapbooks of poetry include Against the Simple (Wick award) and Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Editions award). Miltner was the recipient of a 2014 Individual Excellence in Poetry Award from the Ohio Arts Council. An associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark, he is concurrently on the poetry and fiction faculties of, and is KSU campus coordinator for, the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing program. He edits The Raymond Carver Review and has co-edited Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver and New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry.

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Charles Mintz

Charles Mintz studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, the International Center for Photography, Lakeland Community College, and Cuyahoga Community College. He has a BSEE from Purdue University and an MSEE from Cleveland State University.Read More

Charles Mintz studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, the International Center for Photography, Lakeland Community College, and Cuyahoga Community College. He has a BSEE from Purdue University and an MSEE from Cleveland State University.

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