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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Martin Gitlin

Martin Gitlin is an award-winning journalist and author based in Cleveland. He has had more than 130 books published since 2006. Most were written for students of all grade levels in the realms of sports, history/social studies, pop culture and biographies. Marty has also authored many very successful trade books, including The Great American Cereal Book and the highly acclaimed Powerful Moments in Sports: The Most Significant Sporting Events in American History. He is quite proud of his newest book, titled A Celebration of Animation: The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History. Marty won more than 45 awards as a newspaper journalist before focusing on freelance writing. He also covered the Cleveland Browns for CBS Sports from 2009 to 2012 and is an experienced and fun presenter at schools and libraries.

MaryAnn Givens-Hayes

Times flies after you hit the snooze button. I am MaryAnn Givens-Hayes, born into a large extended family of fifteen in the Tar Heel state of North Carolina. I relocated to New Jersey at the age of nine. I have been married for forty years. Our seven plus four children have given me thirty grands and ten great grandchildren. As a child I loved to listen to my mother read books or tell stories. Those times took me to another world. I began to create my own stories and eventually I wrote them down. Reading is my passion. Writing is my life. Coming from a large family gives me comfort when I’m surrounded by children. I reboot in their company. I’ve had many professions over the years while seeking to find one that I loved more than working with children. I’m now working as an administrator in Columbus, Ohio at a childcare learning center. I’m living my life to write for what I love, children.

Elton Glaser

Elton Glaser is distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron, where he also directed the University of Akron Press and edited the Akron Series in Poetry. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently The Law of Falling Bodies and Translations from the Flesh. With William Greenway, he coedited I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Crab Orchard Poetry Award, and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.

Janyce Denise Glasper

Janyce Denise Glasper is a Dayton, Ohio based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent scholar. Her essays and short stories have appeared in ÆQAI Journal, Belt Magazine, RaceBaitr, Black Youth Project, and other publications. Currently, she is an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Art Writer Grant recipient, Roots, Wounds, & Words: Words of Resistance + Restoration Fiction Fellow, and remote contributing arts writer for the Philadelphia based publication artblog.…Read More

Sheldon Gleisser

Sheldon Gleisser was awarded the Individual Artist Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council in 2002 for his short play (written with Robert Flanagan) entitled “Version 2.0.” Gleisser’s short story “Souvenir” was runner-up in the 2006 Mary Shelley awards (sponsored by “Rosebud” magazine) for new stories of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction. His short story “Converts” was runner-up for the same award in 2008. Another short story, “Secrets of the Hive,” was runner-up in 2010, with a fourth short story, “Stillborn” runner-up in 2012. All the stories were published in “Rosebud” magazine. Gleisser was part of the 2005 Squaw Valley screenwriting seminar where he was mentored by Pamela Gray. In the 2012 Squaw Valley seminar, he was mentored by Patricia Meyers. His short story “And Son” was published in (614) magazine in December of 2015. “Dianasaurus Rex,” his first novel, was published in October of 2019 by Hydra Publications.

Scott Gloden

Scott Gloden lives in Philadelphia, on unceded Lenape land. His stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, and StoryQuarterly. He has a Master’s in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon and works on homeless and housing initiatives.Read More

Lloyd C. Glover

Lloyd C. Glover spend twenty years in the United States Army before retiring as a sergeant first class on September 1, 1996. He started his Army career as a Nike Hercules missile crewman, Army Recruiter where he earned next to the highest recruiting award of three sapphires to the gold recruiting badge. He later served as a Patriot missile senior sergeant serving two combat tours in Israel and Saudi Arabia. He later served as the chief instructor over the Patriot missile course at Fort Bliss, Texas before his retirement. Lloyd is an ordained minister, a former young pastor and now a founder and pastor of two international Christian websites and an online Bible training center. Lloyd attended World Harvest Bible College’s School of the Spirit. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, during the sixties and seventies. This was a time of racial unrest and tension in the United States. The Vietnam War was ongoing, and he was a witness when life in the United States for all nationalities was improving. He is happily married to his wife Tammy (Bland) Glover, of forty years. They have four adult children, seven grandkids, and two great-granddaughters. He is proud that two of his children followed in his military footsteps. His daughter Tiesha is an Air Force Veteran and his Christopher Emmanuel is currently serving in the Navy as a chief petty officer. His book is written for the purpose of being a teaching tool, a reminder to believers that we all have a role in Jesus’s commandment of the Great Commission, and that we all can be instrumental in saving souls for God’s kingdom. Lloyd stands on the words of John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Amen.

Steve Goble

Steve Goble, author of the Spider John historical novels blending piracy and mystery from Seventh Street Books, is introducing a hard-boiled detective series in 2021 with CITY PROBLEMS, from Oceanview Publishing. After more than 30 years in journalism, he now works for a cybersecurity company based in Cleveland. He lives in Ashland County, Ohio.Read More

David Gold

David Gold retired a few years ago from the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, where he worked as an attorney. He holds a PhD in history from The Ohio State University and is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles in law and history journals. His works include two volumes on his native Sullivan County, New York; three judicial biographies; a collection of Civil War letters; and a history of the Ohio General Assembly.…Read More

Maxwell I. Gold

Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish-American prose poet, author, and editor, with an extensive body of work comprising over 300 poems since 2017. His writings have earned a place alongside many literary luminaries in the speculative fiction genres and his work has garnered nominations for multiple awards including the Pushcart Prize, the Eric Hoffer Awards, Rhysling Awards, and the Bram Stoker Awards. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies such as Weird Tales Magazine, Startling Stories, the recent Horror Writers Association anthology Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, Chiral Mad 5, and many more. Maxwell has taught several poetry workshops and co-edited several anthologies. He’s the author of the Bram Stoker nominated poetry collection Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums. Check out http://www.thewellsoftheweird.com

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