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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Lara Lillibridge

Lara Lillibridge (she/they) sings off-beat and dances off-key. She is the author of The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning, Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent, and Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home. Lara is an editor for HeartWood Literary and holds an MFA from West Virginia Wesleyan College.…Read More

Julie Anne Lindsey

Julie Anne Lindsey is an award-winning and bestselling author of mystery and romantic suspense. She’s published more than fifty novels since her debut in 2013 and currently writes series as herself, as well as under multiple pen names, for Harlequin, Kensington, Sourcebooks and Crooked Lane Books. When Julie's not creating new worlds or fostering the epic love of fictional characters, she can be found in Kent, Ohio, plotting murder with her shamelessly enabling friends.…Read More

Nathan Lipps

Jacqueline Lipton

Jacqueline Lipton is an attorney, law professor and literary agent/consultant whose work focuses on privacy, business, and legal issues in the digital age. She teaches on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and is a Senior Agent at the Tobias Literary Agency. Learn more at: https://jlipton.com/Read More

Robinson Lizano Briceño

Robinson Lizano Briceño is a journalist, professor, and writer. He immigrated to the United States from Venezuela in 2018. He is the author of the books Manual de Géneros Periodísticos, La Maldad: Sicarios, Pranes y Otros Monstruos: Crónicas de Primicia, and Los Crímenes que Apagaron la Música, whose English version, Crimes That Turn Off the Music, was published in November 2023.…Read More

Laurie Loewenstein

Death of a Rainmaker (Akashic Books 2018) is Laurie Loewenstein’s second published novel and her first mystery. Death of a Rainmaker was called a “superb series launch” from Publishers Weekly which gave it a starred review and named it a Pick of the Week. She has a BA and MA in history.…Read More

Sarah Lohman

Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating is a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast.…Read More

Kathryn Long

Kathryn Long, also writing as Bailee Abbott, is a retired school teacher who turned to authoring traditional mystery, cozy mystery, romantic suspense, and contemporary romance, a career which fits her mostly introverted personality perfectly. She has penned sixteen novels to date. Her passion for old Hollywood, classic movies, and Cary Grant is evident in her latest series, the Sierra Pines B&B cozy mysteries.…Read More

Scott Longert

Scott Longert is a graduate of the Ohio State University and has his M.A. in American History from Cleveland State with an emphasis on the post-Civil Wars years to the Great Depression. Scott is a retired Park Ranger from the James A. Garfield National Historic Site where he specialized in Civil War talks concerning General Garfield and major battles of the war.…Read More

Matthew J. Louis

Matt Louis is one of the nation's leading experts in career transition for veterans and public service professionals. He coaches individuals on their transition efforts and advises employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. He is the author of the HarperCollins book Mission Transition, a practical guide for veterans in career transition, their families, and their employers.…Read More

Matt Louis is one of the nation’s leading experts in career transition for veterans and public service professionals. He coaches individuals on their transition efforts and advises employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. He is the author of the HarperCollins book Mission Transition, a practical guide for veterans in career transition, their families, and their employers.

Matt serves as the veteran Transition Assistance officer for his West Point class. He is also co-chair of the Cincinnati MyVA Community Veterans Engagement Board, serves on the board of the Tristate Veterans Community Alliance in Cincinnati, and actively serves several other veteran collaboratives around the country.

During active commissioned service in the US Army, Matt served in the Southwest Asia combat theater and in the 194th Separate Armored Brigade. During reserve commissioned service, Matt served on the staff of the Army’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, and commanded multiple regions around the country for the US Military Academy’s Admissions Office. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army Reserves and serves on the Service Academy nominating committee for his local Congressman.

Matt holds an MBA in Operations and Finance from The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Point, and is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and holds the APICS organization’s Certified Supply Chain Professional designation.
Matt also leads global strategy and transformation projects at Deloitte, the largest professional services firm in the world, and is the primary author of “3D Opportunity for the Department of Defense (Additive Manufacturing Fires Up)”, one of Deloitte University Press’ most sought-after articles.

Prior to Deloitte, Matt held operational, production, and quality roles in multiple divisions of both General Electric and Procter & Gamble. His work in both organizations was global in scope, overseeing projects and business in the US, Europe and Asia.

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