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.
- You are searching within category(ies): Fiction
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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). In general, novels with happy endings put her in a bad mood. She lives in Brooklyn.
Michelle Houts
Michelle Houts is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, ranging from colorful, engaging picture books to adventurous middle-grade novels. Her newest book, HOPEFULLY THE SCARECROW (Flamingo Philomel, 2023) celebrates the power of hope and friendship when a scarecrow finds he has little control over his circumstances. Houts writes from a restored 1894 one-room schoolhouse. She is the creator of the 52 Letter Challenge. When she’s not writing, she is editing or encouraging young readers and writers through school visits and workshops.
Anna Lee Huber
Anna Lee Huber is the USA Today bestselling and Daphne award-winning author of the Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the forthcoming historical fiction novel Sisters of Fortune: A Novel of the Titanic, and 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.
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.