Festival Book Fair Authors
Ian Adams
Located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Ian Adams is an environmental
photographer specializing in natural, rural, historical and garden
photography. Since 1985, more than 5,000 of his color photographs have
been published in books, posters, calendars, magazines and other
publications. Ian has photographed for Fine Gardening, Family Circle,
Horticulture, Midwest Living and Organic Gardening Magazines.
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David Baker
David Baker edited Meter in English: A critical Engagement, and his
poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, New Republic, Poetry,
and many other magazines and journals. He teaches English and creative
writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. To learn more please Click here
Christopher Barzak
Christopher Barzak's stories have appeared in a many venues, including
Nerve.com, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons, Salon
Fantastique, Interfictions, Realms of Fantasy, and Lady Churchill's
Rosebud Wristlet. His first novel, One for Sorrow, was published by
Bantam Books in Autumn 2007. Barzak currently lives in Youngstown,
Ohio, where he teaches writing at Youngstown State University.
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Kellie Bean
Kellie Bean is an associate professor of English at Marshall University.
She lives in Huntington, West Virginia. To learn more please Click here
Tim Bowers
Born in Troy, Ohio, Tim Bowers graduated from the Columbus College of
Art & Design, and went on to become an illustrator. He worked in Dayton,
Ohio at an illustration studio doing work for corporations such as
Proctor & Gamble and Wendy's, and then was recruited by Hallmark Cards
in Kansas City, Missouri where he helped start the Shoebox Greetings
card line. Bowers currently lives in Ohio illustrating children's books.
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Gary Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is an author of mysteries, thrillers, science fiction,
fantasy, horror, and mainstream literature. Born in Newark, Ohio, he is
the author of 19 books in which his fiction has been translated into
Japanese, French, Italian, Russian and German. He is married to Lucy
Snyder, a science fiction/fantasy writer, and they reside together in
Columbus, Ohio. To learn more please Click here
Andrea Cheng
Andrea Cheng is an author for young readers who grew up in Cincinnati.
She received a Bachelor's Degree in English and a Master's Degree in
Teaching English as a Second language from Cornell University.
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Robin Davis
Robin Davis is the Columbus Dispatch Food Editor.
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Zee Edgell
A Belizean native, Zelma "Zee" Edgell has worked as a journalist for the
Daily Gleaner in Kingston, Jamaica, a teacher for her former high school
St. Catherine Academy, and a lecturer at the University College of
Belize. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Kent State
University. Edgell has published four novels, four short stories, and
travels to other college campuses for readings and conferences.
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D. G. Fulford
D.G. Fulford is an award-winning writer, a nationally best-selling
author, and co-founder of The Remembering Site. To Our Children's
Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come, written
with her brother, Bob Greene, is Fulford's first book.
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Brian Groh
Brian Groh grew up in Ohio and has written for the New Republic, MTV,
and National Geographic Traveler. Summer People is his first novel.
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Gary Harwood
For more than 24 years, Gary Harwood has been a photographer for Kent
State University, and chief photographer since 1987. He was awarded the
2006 Ohio News Photographers Association's James R. Gordon Ohio
Understanding Award for his photo essay, Growing Season, The Life of a
Migrant Community. Harwood currently teaches Visual Storytelling at Kent
State University. To learn more please Click here
Mary Sayre Haverstock
Oberlin resident and former Director of the Ohio Artists Project, Mary
Haverstock is an affiliate scholar at Oberlin College. She has been an
art critic for the Washington Post, contributing editor of Art in
America, and has lectured at numerous universities and museums,
including the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin. Her publications
include Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900. To learn more please Click here
Nikki Jenkins
Playing With The Hand I Was Dealt is Nikki's first published novel. She
received her graduate degree from The Ohio State University and, while
living in Columbus, Ohio, is currently working on her second novel.
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Rosemary Laurey
USA Today best-selling author, Rosemary Laurey is an expatriate Brit,
retired special ed teacher and grandmother, who now lives in Ohio. She
is the author of the Vampire, Brytewood, and Paradox series.
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Gene Logsdon
Gene Logsdon is an American cultural and economic critic, and farmer
in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is a prolific author of essays, novels, and
nonfiction books about agrarian issues, ideals, and techniques. Logsdon
won the Ohioana Career Award in 2000. To learn more please Click here
Mary Alice Mairose
Mary Alice Mairose is the residence curator at the Ohio Governor's
Residence. She is the author of Our First Family's Home.
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Lee Martin
Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright
Forever. Martin has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation
Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. Living in Columbus, Ohio, he is the
director of the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
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Craig McDonald
An award-winning journalist, editor and fiction-writer, Craig McDonald's
has been published in literary magazines, anthologies and several crime
fiction Web sites. McDonald's first novel, Head Games, was published
in September 2007. He is a recent winner of national awards for his
profiles of crime novelists James Crumley, Daniel Woodrell and
JamesSallis. To learn more please Click here
Dianne McElwain
Dianne McElwain has specialized in botanical art and illustration since
1976. Her botanical paintings have been selected for five American
Society of Botanical Artists exhibits in New York City. Dianne had a
solo show in April 2005 at the Phyllis J. Weston Gallery in Cincinnati,
Ohio. She was the illustrator for Our First Family's Home.
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Paula McLain
Paula McLain is the author of two collections of poetry, Less of Her and
Stumble, Gorgeous; and Like Family: Growing Up In Other People's Houses,
a memoir. She teaches in the MFA Program in Poetry at New England
College, and at John Carroll University, and lives in Cleveland.
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Asma Mobin-Uddin
Asma Mobin-Uddin writes children's novels dedicated to the
Mulsim-American experience and works as a pediatrician. She received her
undergraduate and medical school degrees from The Ohio State University
and The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. She
lives in Ohio with her husband and children. To learn more please Click here
Pat Mullen
Pat Mullen is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University.
Having received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1968, Mullen
specializes in folklore. To learn more please Click here
Eric Nuzum
Eric Nuzum writes articles and reviews on books, music and movies. His
essays have been heard on National Public Radio and Public Radio
International's Marketplace. Raised in Canton, Ohio, Nuzum is also the
program director at WKSU-FM, Kent State University's National Public
Radio affiliate for Akron and Cleveland. To learn more please Click here
Donald Ray Pollock
Donald Ray Pollock is currently a graduate student in the MFA program at
The Ohio State University. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, and The Berkeley Fiction Review. Knockemstiff (Doubleday, 2008) is Pollock’s first novel.
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Jerry Roscoe
Jerry Roscoe has been a recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowships
for the Ohio Arts Council, and has served as poetry reviewer and
columnist for the Columbus Dispatch 1987-1997. He has published poems
inthe Ohio Review, New England Review, South Carolina Review, Louisville
Review, Madison Review, and in many others, and lives in Westerville,
Ohio. To learn more please Click here
Kaira Sturdivant Rouda
Kaira Sturdivant Rouda is president of Real Living, Inc., a real estate
company, and works out of Columbus, Ohio. She is also a published
author, journalist and marketing executive. Rouda launched the
nationally award-winning Real Living brand in 2002, and was
recognizedin Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 50 Fastest-Growing
Women-Led Companies list. To learn more please Click here
Marcia Schonberg
Born and raised in Canton, Ohio and graduating from The Ohio State
University, Marcia Schonberg writes children's book dedicated to Ohio
including B is for Buckeye: An Ohio Alphabet and Cardinal Numbers:
AnOhio Counting Book. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, which
sometimesincludes an art lesson, Schonberg teaches about Ohio to
pre-school and kindergarten-age children. She divides her time
between Ohio and Naples, Florida. To learn more please Click here
Nathan Singer
Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, composer, and experimental
performance artist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and
controversial novel, A Prayer for Dawn. Singer currently teaches
writing at the University of Cincinnati. To learn more please Click here
Lucy Snyder
Lucy A. Snyder is the author of the Sparks and Shadows and Installing
Linux on a Dead Badger. Her poetry has appeared in Full Unit
Hookup,
Strange Horizons, Chiaroscuro, Snow Monkey, Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet, and Greatest Uncommon Denominator. She also served as a poetry
editor for HMS Beagle. To learn more please Click here
Linda Stanek
Linda Stanek has been published in national magazines and e-zines, and
has written nonfiction children's materials for non-profit
organizations. Stanek's first children's book, The Pig and Miss
Prudence, was released in October 2007. She received a degree in Early
and Middle Childhood Education from The Ohio State University.
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Vickie M. Stringer
Vickie M. Stringer is a national best-selling author
(Let That Be The Reason, Dirty Red, and the forthcoming Still Dirty), and founder and
CEO of Triple Crown Publications, which Stringer started in 2001 as a one-woman operation
and is today the largest African American publishing company in the world. Stringer shares
the secrets of her success with aspiring writers in How to Succeed in the Publishing Game.
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Ann Townsend
Ann Townsend is the author of The Coronary Garden (2005) and Dime
Store Erotics (1998), and is an Associate Professor of English at Denison
University. She has won the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship,
an Individual Artist's grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Discovery
Prize from The Nation. She resides in Granville, Ohio.
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Catherynne M. Valente
Currently living in Ohio, Catherynne M. Valente is a poet and writer of
short fiction and novels. In the Night Garden, Volume I of The Orphan's
Tales, received the James Tiptree Jr. Award "for the expansion of gender
and sexuality in speculative fiction," according to her Web site. Cities
of Coin and Spice, Volume II, came out in Fall 2007.
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Richard Wirick
Richard Wirick lives in Venice, California, where he practices law and
writes. He is the West Coast correspondent for the British journal Mind,
and his stories, essays and poems have appeared in Northwest Review,
Indiana Review, Texas Review, L.A. Weekly and other journals.
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