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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Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller is a middle-grade author and former camp counselor originally from Kent, Ohio. He loves snow, coffee, and visiting schools to connect with young readers. His mom, a 2018 heart transplant recipient, has always inspired him to face life with humor and heart. He is the author of The Nerdy Dozen series, middle-grade books about video games, friendship, top-secret aircrafts, positivity, and ostriches.…Read More

Jeff Miller is a middle-grade author and former camp counselor originally from Kent, Ohio. He loves snow, coffee, and visiting schools to connect with young readers. His mom, a 2018 heart transplant recipient, has always inspired him to face life with humor and heart. He is the author of The Nerdy Dozen series, middle-grade books about video games, friendship, top-secret aircrafts, positivity, and ostriches. His latest middle-grade novel, Rare Birds, is authentically inspired by his personal experience of living through his own parent’s heart transplant. Miller currently lives in Chicago, where he keeps asking his cats for writing advice. Learn more at his website: https://www.jeffmillerbooks.com/

Sophie Miller

Sophie Miller is a New York Times Bestselling author and mixed-media artist, originally from Yorkshire, England. She has a BA in Textiles. She likes to write, walk, garden and visit the library with her kids. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Andy J. Pizza. She can be found on instagram (@thethreadhouse).Read More

Sophie Miller is a New York Times Bestselling author and mixed-media artist, originally from Yorkshire, England. She has a BA in Textiles. She likes to write, walk, garden and visit the library with her kids. She now lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Andy J. Pizza. She can be found on instagram (@thethreadhouse).

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Brandon Marie Miller

Brandon Marie Miller earned her degree in American History from Purdue University. She writes about famous people and common folk, about great events and everyday life. Her award-winning books for young people have been honored by the International Reading Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Library Association, the Society of School Librarians International, Voice of Youth Advocates, Bank Street College, the Junior Library Guild, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library, among others.…Read More

Brandon Marie Miller earned her degree in American History from Purdue University. She writes about famous people and common folk, about great events and everyday life. Her award-winning books for young people have been honored by the International Reading Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Library Association, the Society of School Librarians International, Voice of Youth Advocates, Bank Street College, the Junior Library Guild, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library, among others.
Brandon encourages readers to think of history as the greatest story of all. Fiction has nothing on history for tales of courage, sacrifice, redemption, cruelty and betrayal. As a writer of history Brandon aims to inspire readers with stories of people who have struggled, overcome great odds, and made a contribution to our human spirit. It’s no coincidence that “story” is right there in the word history!
Born and raised in Illinois, Brandon lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. When not researching and writing, she loves to read biographies and murder mysteries, travel, play games, attend the ballet, watch sports and old movies from the 1930s and 1940s, and enjoy great conversation. She includes her middle name on all her books so people know she is a girl named “Brandon”
Find out more:
http://www.brandonmariemiller.com
http://hands-on-books.blogspot.com

Robert Ernest Miller

Robert Earnest (Bob) Miller is a native of the Cincinnati area, having grown up in Bridgetown. He currently resides in Warren County, Ohio. Miller earned his PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches history at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College. Miller is the author of Cincinnati: The War Years (2004) and Hamilton County Parks (2006).…Read More

Robert Earnest (Bob) Miller is a native of the Cincinnati area, having grown up in Bridgetown. He currently resides in Warren County, Ohio. Miller earned his PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches history at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College. Miller is the author of Cincinnati: The War Years (2004) and Hamilton County Parks (2006). He has worked on several public history projects at the local, state and national level, including the award-winning World War II exhibit entitled “Cincinnati Goes to War: A Community Responds to Total War” for the Cincinnati Museum Center. For more information about Miller, check him out online at amazon.com/Robert-Earnest-Miller

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Robert Miltner

Robert Miltner is the author of a book of short stories and of several collections of poetry. And Your Bird Can Sing: Short Fiction, published by Bottom Dog Press in 2014, has been nominated for 2015 Ohioana Book Award in Fiction. Hotel Utopia, a 2011 collection of prose poetry, was selected by National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles for the 2009 New Rivers Press Many Voices Poetry Prize and was subsequently a finalist for the 2012 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry.…Read More

Robert Miltner is the author of a book of short stories and of several collections of poetry. And Your Bird Can Sing: Short Fiction, published by Bottom Dog Press in 2014, has been nominated for 2015 Ohioana Book Award in Fiction. Hotel Utopia, a 2011 collection of prose poetry, was selected by National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles for the 2009 New Rivers Press Many Voices Poetry Prize and was subsequently a finalist for the 2012 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. His ten chapbooks of poetry include Against the Simple (Wick award) and Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Editions award). Miltner was the recipient of a 2014 Individual Excellence in Poetry Award from the Ohio Arts Council. An associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark, he is concurrently on the poetry and fiction faculties of, and is KSU campus coordinator for, the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing program. He edits The Raymond Carver Review and has co-edited Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver and New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry.

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Charles Mintz

Charles Mintz studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, the International Center for Photography, Lakeland Community College, and Cuyahoga Community College. He has a BSEE from Purdue University and an MSEE from Cleveland State University.Read More

Charles Mintz studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, the International Center for Photography, Lakeland Community College, and Cuyahoga Community College. He has a BSEE from Purdue University and an MSEE from Cleveland State University.

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Dinara Mirtalipova

Dinara Mirtalipova is an award winning folk artist with big passion for folklore storytelling, modern children’s books, and classic fairytales. In her work Dinara uses bright primary color palette and embellishes her designs with bold folk floral patterns. Dinara is a traditional artist who paints by hand and prefers mediums like gouache and pencils on paper, printmaking and block printing.…Read More

Dinara Mirtalipova is an award winning folk artist with big passion for folklore storytelling, modern children’s books, and classic fairytales. In her work Dinara uses bright primary color palette and embellishes her designs with bold folk floral patterns. Dinara is a traditional artist who paints by hand and prefers mediums like gouache and pencils on paper, printmaking and block printing. Currently, Dinara is an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art where she teaches Illustration, and also paints away from her home studio in Northeast Ohio, working on collaborations and commissions.

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Tonya Mitchell

Ever since reading Jane Eyre in high school, Tonya has been drawn to dark stories, particularly of the Gothic variety. Her influences include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker. More contemporarily, she loves the work of Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie, Victoria Holt, Margaret Atwood, and Laura Purcell. When she landed on a story about a woman who pretended to be insane in order to write a newspaper story, she knew she’d landed on something she was meant to write.…Read More

Ever since reading Jane Eyre in high school, Tonya has been drawn to dark stories, particularly of the Gothic variety. Her influences include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker. More contemporarily, she loves the work of Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie, Victoria Holt, Margaret Atwood, and Laura Purcell. When she landed on a story about a woman who pretended to be insane in order to write a newspaper story, she knew she’d landed on something she was meant to write. Tonya received her BA in journalism from Indiana University. Her short fiction has appeared in The Copperfield Review, Words Undone, and The Front Porch Review, as well as in various anthologies, including Furtive Dalliance, Welcome to Elsewhere, and Glimmer and Other Stories and Poems, for which she won the Cinnamon Press award in fiction. She is a self-professed Anglophile and is obsessed with all things relating to the Victorian period. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society North America and resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and three wildly energetic sons.

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J. P. Mitchell

J.P. Mitchell is an educator, writer, speaker and creator whose passion is to help leaders to link vision to opportunity through the power of words. She is a two-time TEDx speaker and independent publisher of Sweet Fire, an empowerment anthem for girls and women. On J.P.'s favorite things list are good music, engaging conversation, and the great outdoors.…Read More

J.P. Mitchell is an educator, writer, speaker and creator whose passion is to help leaders to link vision to opportunity through the power of words. She is a two-time TEDx speaker and independent publisher of Sweet Fire, an empowerment anthem for girls and women. On J.P.’s favorite things list are good music, engaging conversation, and the great outdoors. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and two children.

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Dia Mixon

Dia Mixon has a passion for introducing children to new languages and cultures. As a Spanish teacher, with a Master of Education in Bilingual-Bicultural Education, she continues to seek new ways for readers to build cultural awareness and connect with the characters she creates. Dia published her debut children’s book, One Whole Me, in 2021, and promptly released her second book, When I Feel at Home, in 2022.…Read More

Dia Mixon has a passion for introducing children to new languages and cultures. As a Spanish teacher, with a Master of Education in Bilingual-Bicultural Education, she continues to seek new ways for readers to build cultural awareness and connect with the characters she creates. Dia published her debut children’s book, One Whole Me, in 2021, and promptly released her second book, When I Feel at Home, in 2022. Her upcoming project, The World That I See: Europe is inspired by her beautiful, neurodivergent child and is set to release in February 2025. She currently teaches high school Spanish in her hometown, Columbus, Ohio. Learn more at: https://www.el-mundo-mixon.com/

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