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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Annie Hogsett

Annie Hogsett Bio   Annie Hogsett grew up in a remarkably small town in West Virginia and earned her MA in eighteenth-century English literature from West Virginia University. With degree in hand, Annie ditched Keats and Wordsworth, followed a guy to Cleveland, and fell into an advertising agency where she learned how to write compelling fiction on a deadline.…Read More
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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.Read More
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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.Read More
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Edward P. Horvath

Colonel Edward P. Horvath, Jr. is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, having served three deployments in Iraq. He has been a physician for 50 years, specializing in internal medicine, occupational medicine and pulmonary disease. During his last deployment in 2011, Col. Horvath was Task Force Deputy Commander and Chief of Clinical Services for a combat support hospital near Tikrit, Iraq and was responsible for the medical care of over 20,000 U.S.…Read More
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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
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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.…Read More
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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
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Rebe Huntman

Rebe Huntman is the author of My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, February 18, 2025). She is a memoirist, essayist, dancer, teacher, and poet who writes at the intersections of feminism, world religion and spirituality. For over a decade she directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its dance company, One World Dance Theater.…Read More
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Allegra Hyde

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a “Best Book of 2022” by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and named a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award.…Read More
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Juliette Hyland

Juliette Hyland believes in strong coffee, hot drinks and happily ever afters! She lives in Ohio, USA, with her prince charming, who has patiently listened to many rants regarding characters failing to follow the outline. When not working on fun and flirty happily ever afters, Juliette can be found spending time with her beautiful daughters, giant dogs or sewing uneven stitches with her sewing machine.Read More