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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Lissa Bryan
Lissa Bryan is an astronaut, renowned Kabuki actress, Olympic pole vault gold medalist, Iron Chef champion, and scientist who recently discovered the cure for athlete’s foot … though only in her head. Real life isn’t so interesting, which is why she spends most of her time writing. She is the author of four novels, Ghostwriter, Under These Restless Skies, The End of All Things and its sequel, Land of the Shadow.…Read More
Jeanne Bryner
Jeanne Bryner was born in Appalachia and grew up in Newton Falls, Ohio. A practicing registered nurse, she is a graduate of Trumbull Memorial’s School of Nursing and Kent State University’s Honors College. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council (’97, 07), and Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed in Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Kentucky and Edinburgh, Scotland.…Read More
Carla Buckley
Carla Buckley is the author of the novels The Things That Keep Us Here and, Invisible. The Things That Keep Us Here was nominated for a Thriller Award as a best first novel, was a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award for fiction in 2011, and has been a favorite with book clubs around the country.…
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Gary Buettner
From Gary himself: "Who writes this stuff? Me. My name is Gary Buettner (Bit-ner) and I've been writing spooky stories since junior high, but I've been making up my own superheroes and stories since I was a little kid. Once, I even won a ten-speed bike by making up my own superhero for a contest on the back of a cereal box!…Read More
John Bullock
John Bullock is English and has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Virginia. His stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Fifth Wednesday, the Laurel Review, Prague Review, Clackamas Literary Review, in the anthology Open Windows III, and in other journals. He teaches high school English in rural Ohio. Mark Small: This is Your Life is his first novel.Read More
Tamara Bundy
Tamara Bundy, a graduate of the Ohio State University, is a former columnist for the Cincinnati Post. She teaches English at Miami University where she received her Master’s Degree. Tamara is the author or co-author of seven non-fiction books. Her middle grade novel, Walking with Miss Millie (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin) won several awards including the Ohioana Award for Middle Grade/Young Adult Fiction and has landed on many state reading lists.…Read More
Kathleen Burgess
Kathleen S. Burgess hitchhiked from Washington, D.C., to Lima, Peru in 1971-2. What Burden Do Those Trains Bear Away is a memoir in poetry of this journey. Burgess is the editor of Reeds and Rushes—Pitch, Buzz, and Hum (Pudding House), author of Shaping What Was Left (Pudding House), Gardening with Wallace Stevens (Moria Books), and The Wonder Cupboard (NightBallet Press, 2019).…Read More
Richard W. Burry
Richard W. Burry is a retired neuroscientist and an architectural photographer who has worked for many preservation organizations, including the Ohio History Connection, Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and Heritage Ohio. Burry has a permanent exhibit of three photographs located at the Ohio Statehouse, and his work has been featured in over 20 galleries.Read More
Christopher Busta-Peck
Christopher Busta-Peck is a librarian and artist living in the Onaway neighborhood of Shaker Heights with his wife, one year old son, a cat, and three turtles.Read More
Doris Caceres-Schumick
Public School Teaching Sucks, Period.: A Memoir of a Special Education/ESL Teacher takes you inside the world of a public-school teacher who sheds light on the problems inside public schools―illegal student-teacher ratio, involuntary teaching-assignment changes, school nurse shortages, lack of hot water in buildings, stairwell and storage room classrooms, and lack of student supervision―to name a few. …Read More