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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Tim Waggoner

Shirley Jackson Award finalist Tim Waggoner has published over thirty novels and three short story collections of dark fiction. Waggoner wrote his first story at the age of five, when he created a comic book version of King Kong vs. Godzilla on a stenographer’s pad. It took him a few more years until he began selling professionally, though.…Read More

Thomas E Wagner

Thomas E. Wagner is a university professor emeritusin the School of Planningat the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of books and articles on regional history, collective bargaining, and citizen participation.Read More

Sara Moore Wagner

Sara Moore Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize for her manuscript Swan Wife (expected late summer 2022). She the author of the poetry manuscript Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript prize winner), a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cincinnati Review, among others.…Read More

R. L. Walker

R.L. Walker hopes her strong female characters will encourage her students to not only write, but to follow their dreams solving mysteries, uncovering archaeological secrets, and to keep going even in the face of adversity. R.L.Walker has always dreamed up stories and adventures while out adventuring while working on an archaeological dig in college or while traveling in the family business, a food concessions in the carnival. She grew up in Lithopolis, Ohio and left to teach English in South Korea. Since then she has been teaching Reading and Writing in Chillicothe City Schools and now in Southwestern City Schools. To help motivate her students to write she started sharing her writing with them and even made a goal to finish a novel by the end of the school. After a fun year of getting the students involved she has been writing since. Now she has started a writing club with her students after school to help those students who have an interest in writing and hopes to have them publish their own novels on Amazon by the end of the year. The Disappearing Act, her first novel, is a mystery set in the carnival. R.L. Walker drew on her childhood experiences to help write the novel, but claims that to her knowledge there were no kidnappers and she does not have telepathic abilities. Despite her students thinking her main character, Zoe, was based on herself. She is following up on Zoe’s adventures with a second novel, Crimival. In this novel, Zoe’s telepathic powers take her Gibtown, Florida to solve a crime of sabatoge and intrigue. Kai’s Secret, her second novel, is a mystery set on an archaeological dig. Amazon reviewers have likened it to the “Da Vinci Code” and many enjoy going on an Indiana Jones style adventure with Kai as she uses her shapeshifting abilities to hopefully crack the case of artifacts being stolen and their connection to her parent’s disappearance years ago.
Both books are available on Amazon, Wheatberry Books, and The Local Talent Marketplace

Follow her adventures on Instagram, look for book signings and writing classes for kids
https://www.instagram.com/r.l.walker88author/ or on Facebook: R.L.Walker and The Disappearing Act

Corrinne Walker

Corrinne Walker, a certified life coach, and motivational speaker helps individuals understand that life experiences that hurt do not always mean that they are wrong. That everyone has the power to choose to see difficulties as signs that a few battles need to take place, that there is a need to clear some personal obstacles, so some space can be created for answers, light, and love to enter their life.…Read More

Laura Maylene Walter

Laura Maylene Walter is a writer and editor in Cleveland. Her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ninth Letter, The Masters Review, and many other publications. She has been a Tin House Scholar, a recipient of the Ohioana Library Association’s Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and a writer-in-residence at Yaddo, the Chautauqua Institution, and Art Omi: Writers.…Read More

David Wanczyk

I am a nonfiction writer (Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind) and literary journal editor (New Ohio Review), and I have taught English at Ohio University for the last 13 years. After studying at Holy Cross, I got my Masters in Poetry and Ph.D. in Creative Nonfiction at OU in Athens, where I continue to live with my wife Megan, my daughter, Natalie, my son, Benjamin, and the family heirloom—an autographed Pedro Martinez hat.

I’ve published somewhat widely, with poems in a dozen journals and essays in another half-dozen, and a couple scholarly articles about British fiction. In 2009, I began writing about unorthodox sports, which led to pieces in Salon, Slate, and theclassical.org, and eventually brought me in contact with Beep Baseball, or baseball for the blind.

In 2012, I watched my first Beep Baseball game, and I have followed the National Beep Baseball Association consistently ever since, reporting on the annual World Series and on the ups and downs of blind ballplayers for the Boston Globe Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Hobart. Some of the players came to call me “Book Dave,” and I’m happy to have that book, after quite a few years of revision, forthcoming from Ohio University’s Swallow Press.

Growing up in Western Massachusetts, I was a natural and diehard Red Sox fan, and I fancied myself a great young prospect. One Saturday morning, though, I gave up 27 runs in an inning, and (very slowly) I came to recognize that my future in sports was going to depend on a pen rather than a bat. While following Beep Baseball, I found that what I’m really interested in is the underdog story, and the search for unexpected, uncanny glory. While I covered those topics—once speaking about them on Taiwanese radio—I eventually realized that my obsessive interest in the sport was a way for me to think about the rigors of young parenthood, too, and about the role impracticality can play, and maybe needs to play, in my life.

Through my interviews with approximately 100 participants, and my travels to three countries to meet Beep Ballers, I developed a rapport with the players and sought only to tell an engaging story about them that refused to pigeonhole or patronize.

Andrea Wang

Andrea Wang is an acclaimed author of children’s books. Her picture book Watercress was awarded the Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Ohioana Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, among other accolades. Her other books, The Many Meanings of Meilan, Luli and the Language of Tea, Magic Ramen, and The Nian Monster, have also received awards and starred reviews.…Read More

Lindsay Ward

Lindsay Ward is the author and illustrator of over thirty books for kids. Her work has been reviewed in Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School and Library Journal, and the New York Times. Originally from San Jose, California, Lindsay now lives in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Peninsula, Ohio, with her husband and fellow author Frank Tupta, their three boys, their dog Sally, and a flock of ducks.…Read More

Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Other Words for Home, a Newbery Honor Book and a Walter Honor Book for Younger Readers, and The Shape of Thunder. Her teen books, Here We Are Now and My Heart and Other Black Holes, have been translated into over twenty-five languages. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.…Read More

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