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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Patricia Wynn Brown
Patricia Wynn Brown is the author of Royal Roots: Reimagining a Life Through Humor, a Castle and the U.S. Navy (Biblio Publishing). Her humor memoir column appeared in newspapers for eight years, and for 15 years, she performed her comedy memoir show across the country. She’s an award-winning writer, national speaker, performer, dancer and former longtime emcee of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, where she continues to help plan the event.
Lorena Brown
Duffy Brown
Duffy Brown loves anything with a mystery. While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. She has two cats, Spooky and Dr. Watson, and conjures up who-done-it stories of her very own for Berkley Prime Crime. She has two series, the Consignment Shop Mysteries set in Savannah and the Cycle Path Mysteries set on Mackinac Island.
Dale Patrick Brown
Dale Patrick Brown is the author of Brilliance and Balderdash: Early Lectures at Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tonya Ulynn Brown
Tonya Ulynn Brown was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio but now calls southeastern Ohio home. She spent her younger years right out of college living in Europe and teaching English as a second language. She attributes her time in Eastern Europe as being one of great personal growth, where her love for history, the classics, and all things European was born. Tonya holds a Master’s degree in Teaching and is an elementary school teacher where she uses her love of history and reading to try to inspire younger generations. Along with all the historical characters that she entertains in her head, she lives with her husband, two sons and a very energetic French Bulldog.
Roger Brucker
Roger Brucker is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading cave explorers, having participated in and chronicled expeditions in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky for seven decades. A cofounder of the Cave Research Foundation (CRF), he and other explorers were responsible for many discoveries during the second half of the 20th century that led to Mammoth Cave being recognized as the world’s longest cave, as described in Mr. Brucker’s books The Caves Beyond, The Longest Cave, and Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World’s Longest Cave. Mr. Brucker is also the coauthor of Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins, which inspired the acclaimed stage musical Floyd Collins by Tina Landau and composer Adam Guettel. He is also the author of the historical novel Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave, which is based on the true story of a slave who explored and guided tours at Mammoth Cave during the early 1800s. Mr. Brucker has consulted for National Geographic Television and has interviewed on NPR and the CBS Evening News, among other media appearances He resides in Beavercreek, Ohio.
Kinley Bryan
Kinley Bryan applied her love of writing to the world of corporate communications before her fascination with historical fiction became too great to ignore. Her debut novel, Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury, is set during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It was inspired by stories of her great-grandfather Walter Stalker, who was at the helm of the four-masted schooner Golden Age, his wife Annabel serving as ship’s cook, when the storm hit. Kinley graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University with a degree in English, and earned a master’s degree in communications management from John Carroll University. Her love for the inland seas swelled during the years she spent in an old cottage on Lake Erie. She now lives with her husband and children on the Atlantic Coast, where she prefers not to lose sight of the shore.
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. She has short stories in Romantic Interludes and Tales from the End. More of Lissa may be found on her website, http://www.lissabryan.com/.
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. With the support of Hiram College’s Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities, her nursing poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed by Verb Ballets in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a new play, “Foxglove Canyon” and she has eight books in print. She received an outstanding alumnae award from KSU, Trumbull Campus and her book, No Matter How Many Windows received the Working Class Studies’ Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing in Chicago. A community affiliate of the Center for Working Class Studies, she often writes about working class issues. She lives with her husband near a dairy farm in Newton Falls, Ohio. Bryner’s Smoke: Poems received second place in the 2012 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. (Photo credit to Tammy Streets)
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.…
Read MoreCarla 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. In her novels, Buckley balances the intricacies of family dynamics with the terrifyingly real threat of new technology – pandemic viruses (The Things that Keep Us Here) and nano-techonology (Invisible). Buckley was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up overseas, but returned to Washington for high school and college. She has worked as an assistant press secretary for a U.S. senator, an analyst with the Smithsonian Institution, and a technical writer for a defense contractor. She serves on the Board of the International Thriller Writers as Vice President of Awards. She now makes her home in Columbus, Ohio with her husband, an environmental scientist, and their three children.