Ohio Author Profiles

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Ron Horsley

Ron Horsley is an author and artist responsible for numerous short stories, essays, reviews, and book cover designs. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first published work was as editor of and contributor to The Midnighters Club: Tales from the Harker House Collection, 2001. The collection included authors such as Lucy A.…Read More

Ron Horsley is an author and artist responsible for numerous short stories, essays, reviews, and book cover designs. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first published work was as editor of and contributor to The Midnighters Club: Tales from the Harker House Collection, 2001. The collection included authors such as Lucy A. Snyder and Paul Tremblay, and several stories received recognition in the 2001 Bram Stoker Awards for Best Short Fiction.

His short stories have appeared in magazines such as “On Spec” and his story “In the Empty Country” appears in the Masques V anthology, edited and published by Barry Hoffman and Gary A. Braunbeck (originally edited by Jerry Wiliamson).

He is an alumnus of the 2002 Clarion East Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing and a recipient of the Douglas L. Ruble scholarship fund for science fiction writing and development.
His first published novel, Sin Gorge: An Everything Under Novel was released in October 2012. The book is the first in the ‘John Flicker’ series of urban fantasy/horror novels set in Columbus and featuring the protagonist John Flicker/Body & Soul, with subsequent novels Jennyripper, The Never-Time Girl, and A City Made of Saturdays.

He is currently a member of the MFA program for Graphic Design at the Columbus College of Art and Design. As part of his graduate thesis he is illustrating his first children’s novel, a fantasy epic titled Beyond the Grass Ocean. He currently works as a graphic designer in the Columbus, Ohio area, where his artwork is frequently featured in local publications such as (614) Magazine, Stock & Barrel, and UWeekly.

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Erin Hosier

Erin Hosier is the author of the memoir Don't Let Me Down (Atria, 2019), and the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women's history (and untold stories of all kinds).…Read More

Erin Hosier is the author of the memoir Don’t Let Me Down (Atria, 2019), and the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women’s history (and untold stories of all kinds). In general, novels with happy endings put her in a bad mood. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jay Hoster

Jay Hoster has been collecting material relating to Wall Street and New York’s financial district for more than twenty years. He recently retired as co-owner of Books on High, Inc., in Columbus. He has a B.A. from Haverford College and an M.A. in Journalism from Ohio State University and was the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship that enabled him to do graduate work at Columbia University.…Read More

Jay Hoster has been collecting material relating to Wall Street and New York’s financial district for more than twenty years. He recently retired as co-owner of Books on High, Inc., in Columbus. He has a B.A. from Haverford College and an M.A. in Journalism from Ohio State University and was the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship that enabled him to do graduate work at Columbia University. Hoster is a past president of the Columbus Historical Society and a founding member of the Aldus Society. His Ohio connections run deep. His great-great-grandfather made the decision to live in Columbus after experiencing the local celebrations on July 4, 1833. All of the historic images in his book Early Wall Street: 1830-1940 are from his collection.

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Michelle Houts

Michelle Houts writes both fiction and nonfiction for elementary and middle-grade readers. She the author of SEA GLASS SUMMER, stunningly illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Her STEM-based chapter book series, LUCY’S LAB encourages young readers to be curious explorers of the world. Houts has written the biographies of a woman who played baseball (KAMMIE ON FIRST), a midcentury modern artist (COUNT THE WINGS: THE LIFE AND ART OF CHARLEY HARPER), the first woman to solo hike the Appalachian Trail (WHEN GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A HIKE) and a great-horned owl (SILENT SWOOP).…Read More

Michelle Houts writes both fiction and nonfiction for elementary and middle-grade readers. She the author of SEA GLASS SUMMER, stunningly illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Her STEM-based chapter book series, LUCY’S LAB encourages young readers to be curious explorers of the world. Houts has written the biographies of a woman who played baseball (KAMMIE ON FIRST), a midcentury modern artist (COUNT THE WINGS: THE LIFE AND ART OF CHARLEY HARPER), the first woman to solo hike the Appalachian Trail (WHEN GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A HIKE) and a great-horned owl (SILENT SWOOP). Houts writes from a restored one-room schoolhouse and is a frequent speaker at schools and conferences. Find out more about Michelle Houts, including her 52 Letter Challenge and The Mark Boney Promise, an anti-bullying campaign, at http://www.michellehouts.com.

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Arnett Howard

A professional musician (trumpet, keyboards and voice) since 1967, Arnett Howard entered the world of history in January, 1980. His Musician’s Scrapbook: The Illustrated History of Columbus’ Black Entertainers became the foundation for Listen For The Jazz: Keynotes In Columbus History (1990), a collaboration with Candy Watkins. In 2008 Arcadia Press published Columbus: The Musical Crossroads, a joint project featuring David Meyers, Candy Watkins, Jim Loeffler and Arnett Howard.…Read More

A professional musician (trumpet, keyboards and voice) since 1967, Arnett Howard entered the world of history in January, 1980. His Musician’s Scrapbook: The Illustrated History of Columbus’ Black Entertainers became the foundation for Listen For The Jazz: Keynotes In Columbus History (1990), a collaboration with Candy Watkins. In 2008 Arcadia Press published Columbus: The Musical Crossroads, a joint project featuring David Meyers, Candy Watkins, Jim Loeffler and Arnett Howard. In 2012, The History Press published Ohio Jazz: The History of Jazz in the Buckeye State, co-authored by the same group. He also worked on a 2013 exhibit of the history of Columbus music for the Columbus Historical Society displayed the Center of Science and Industry (COSI).

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Anna Lee Huber

Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides in Indiana with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.…Read More

Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides in Indiana with her family and is hard at work on her next novel. Visit her online at http://www.annaleehuber.com.

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Tim Hudak

Timothy Hudak is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History. He has been studying the history of football at the high school and collegiate levels for more than 25 years. All the Way to #1 is Mr. Hudak’s eighth book and the first ever written to cover the history of high school football national champions.…Read More

Timothy Hudak is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History. He has been studying the history of football at the high school and collegiate levels for more than 25 years. All the Way to #1 is Mr. Hudak’s eighth book and the first ever written to cover the history of high school football national champions. In addition, he has written almost four dozen articles and book reviews on high school and college athletics and occasionally teaches a course about the history of college football at local community colleges. Mr. Hudak has appeared on Cleveland area radio and television programs discussing high school football and has been used as a resource by local newspaper writers and the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Tim Hudak and his wife, Patti Graziano, live in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.…Read More

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.

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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.…

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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. 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.

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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.Read More

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.