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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Katie Mazeika
Katie Mazeika is an award-winning author and illustrator who can’t imagine a better job than making books. She loves creating stories based on real people and events. Katie is passionate about highlighting disabled voices in her work. She strongly believes all children should see themselves in books. Katie hopes her work as a creator and advocate creates a space to openly discuss disability and neurodiversity. She does this through presentations, panels, and workshops for educators, kidlit creators, and young readers. You can visit her online at http://www.katiemazeika.com.
T.L. McBeth
T. L. McBeth was born in Findlay, Ohio. As a child, he grew up reading Dr. Seuss and H. A. & Margret Rey (although he mainly looked at the pictures). He studied illustration in college where he developed a love for expressive and minimal characters. In 2015, he moved to New York City to pursue an illustration career and he is currently lucky enough to illustrate picture books full time. He now lives in Bloomington, Indiana and enjoys working from his small home studio in the middle of nowhere. When he does leave the house, he likes to watch the dogs in the neighborhood dog park and visit bookstores for inspiration. He is the illustrator of Stegothesaurus, Triceratopposite, Ogilvy, Ducks! and the Big Words Small Stories series, and the author/illustrator of Robot in Love, the Randy, the Badly Drawn Horse series, and I Am NOT the Easter Bunny! T. L. was previously an artist-in-residence at Wetherby-Pembridge School New York. His work has been featured by Macmillan, Scholastic, Penguin Random House, Threadless, McDonald’s, TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, the Society of Illustrators and is part of the permanent collection of the Mazza Museum.
James McBride
James McBride is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ’Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024 and the recipient of a National Humanities Medal, as well as being an accomplished musician, McBride is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. Learn more: jamesmcbride.com
Kristina McBride
Kristina McBride has published four novels for young adults – THE TENSION OF OPPOSITES (2010), ONE MOMENT (2012), A MILLION TIMES GOODNIGHT (2016), and THE BAKERSVILLE DOZEN (2017). Kristina is a former high school English teacher and yearbook advisor, as well as an adjunct professor at Antioch University Midwest and Wright State University. She loves leading writers’ workshops for all ages, including teachers and librarians aiming to lead to student workshops. Kristina has a thing for music, trees, purses, and chocolate. You might be surprised to learn that Kristina was almost kidnapped when she was a child. She also bookstalks people on a regular basis. Kristina lives in Ohio with her husband and two children.
Erin McCahan
Erin McCahan (pronounced McCann) is the author of Love and Other Foreign Words and the forthcoming The Lake Effect. Love and Other Foreign Words was named one of the Best Summer Books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly, is a Junior Library Guild selection, and has been published in ten languages. Visit her online at http://www.erinmccahan.com.
Cory McCarthy
Cory McCarthy is the author of numerous books for young readers including Man O’ War, The Color of Rain, and Breaking Sky. They live with their family in Vermont, where they teach writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Learn more at: https://onceandfuturestories.com/
Brian McClellan
Brian lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, two dogs, a cat, and between 6,000 and 60,000 honey bees (depending on the time of year).
He began writing on Wheel of Time role playing websites at fifteen. Encouraged toward writing by his parents, he started working on short stories and novellas in his late teens. He went on to major in English with an emphasis on creative writing at Brigham Young University. It was here he met Brandon Sanderson, who encouraged Brian’s feeble attempts at plotting and characters more than he should have.
Brian continued to study writing not just as an art but as a business and was determined this would be his life-long career. He attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Bootcamp in 2006. In 2008, he received honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest.
In November 2011, The Powder Mage Trilogy sold at auction to Orbit Books. The trilogy is out now: Promise of Blood, The Crimson Campaign, and The Autumn Republic, with a new trilogy set to begin in 2016.
Karen McClintock
Karen A. McClintock, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in family secrets and shame recovery. She is a national workshop leader and teaches human sexuality at Southern Oregon University. She is the author of four previous books, including Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing and Shame-Less Lives, Grace-Full Congregations.
Delores L. McCollum
NATIVE OF
Ann Arbor, Michigan
RESIDENT OF
Cleveland, Ohio
EDUCATION
John F. Kennedy High School – Cleveland, Ohio
Spelman College – Atlanta, Georgia – BA/History
3rd of Five Generations of Spelman Graduates
Cleveland State University – Cleveland, Ohio – MA/History
CAREER
Social Studies Teacher – Grades 7-12 – Public Schools of Cleveland – 27½ Years
Mentor – High School Teachers New to the Profession – Public Schools of Cleveland – 4 Years
Adjunct Instructor – Ursuline College – Pepper Pike, Ohio – 2 Semesters
Masters Apprentice Program – Teacher Candidates
Field Supervisor – Cleveland State University – Cleveland, Ohio – 2 Semesters – Pre-Service Teachers
Consultant/Presenter – Successful Classroom Management LLC
AUTHOR/CO-AUTHOR
IF . . . Bible Stories Were Reported in Today’s Headlines
Your First 30 Minutes – The ABC’s of Successful Classroom Management (Red Ribbon Edition)
Do You Know? A Survey of the Black Experience in America
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Member – Teacher Education Curriculum Re-design/CREATE Team of Cleveland State University 2011-2012
Member – The City Club of Cleveland
Creator – Release Your Power: VOTE!® – A Voter Awareness & Education Project
Founder – Successful Classroom Management Initiative®
Creator – Happy Birthday Dr. King!” © Birthday Card Contest
Founder – The Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast Celebration – Cleveland, Ohio
Volunteer – Election Protection Initiative – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Volunteer – Food Bank Ministry – Bethany Baptist Church – Cleveland, Ohio
Volunteer (former) – Food Bank Ministry – Forest Hill Presbyterian Church – Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Volunteer – Stop the Hate® Essay Reader – Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage – Beachwood, Ohio
Proponent Testimony – The Education Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives
At the Invitation of The (late) Honorable Claudette J. Woodard – Bill to create “Teacher Appreciation Day”
HONORS, AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Woman of Excellence Award from the Great Lakes Region of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Community Leadership Honoree – Beth-el AME Zion Church – Cleveland, Ohio
“In the Footsteps of Dr. King” Honoree – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Scholarship Committee –
Cleveland, Ohio
Delores L. McCollum Scholarship – Established by the MLK Holiday Scholarship Committee – Cleveland, Ohio
Citation Award Honoree – Alpha Xi Chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Educational Excellence Award – Ohio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission
Community Service Award – Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. – Gamma Chapter
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers®
Fulbright Scholar – The State of Israel
Armonk Scholar – Federal Republic of Germany
Letter of Commendation – The (late) Honorable Louis Stokes – Member of the United States Congress
Outstanding Young Woman of America®
Jim McCormac
Jim McCormac worked for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for thirty-one years, first as a botanist and then on special projects involving animals, primarily birds, for the Division of Wildlife. He is the author or coauthor of several books, the “Nature” columnist for the Columbus Dispatch, and an avid, frequently published photographer. https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Gardening+for+Moths