Previous Ohioana Book Festival Featured Authors
Each year, the Ohioana Book Festival features ten outstanding Ohio authors. These authors participate in outreach programming before the Festival and in readings and panel discussions during the Festival. Since the Festival’s inception in 2007, we have had some amazing featured authors.
2012 Featured Authors
Tom Batiuk
Jeni Britton Bauer
Cinda Williams Chima
Casey Daniels
Nancy Petro
Donald Ray Pollock
Les Roberts
Michael J. Rosen
Robin Yocum
2011
Carrie Bebris
Lisa Black
Tim Bowers
Andrea Cheng
Robert Greer
Ted Gup
J. Patrick Lewis
Sandy Plunkett
Bev Shaffer
Maggie Smith
2010
David Catrow
Dan Chaon
Lori Foster
Andrew Hudgins
Angela Johnson
Lisa Klein
Martha Moody
David Lee Morgan Jr.
Lucy Snyder
Ted Rall
2009
Jaime Adoff
Phil Brady
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Ann Hagedorn
Peter Mansoor
Erin McCarthy
John Scalzi
Jeff Smith
R. L. Stine
Thrity Umrigar
2008
Sharon Draper
Michael Duffy
Karen Harper
Will Hillenbrand
Zakes Mda
Marilyn Nelson
Harvey Pekar
Mary Doria Russell
Connie Schultz
Marilou K. Suszko
2007
Jill Bialosky
Dan Cryer
Michael Dirda
Elizabeth Dodd
Anthony Doerr
Dale Keiger
Julie Salamon
Scott Russell Sanders
James Toedtman
Lisa Watts
