A prolific writer of award-winning science fiction, nonfiction, columns and web pieces John Scalzi may be best known for his Old Man's War series. A former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Scalzi writes from his home in the village of Bradford, Ohio.

Columbus-born Jacqueline Woodson has written more than 30 books. Her 2001 novel, Miracle Boys, won the Coretta Scott King Award and was ada pted into an award-winning mini-series. Her 2014 memoir and free verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the Newbury Award, the national book award for young people's literature, an NAACP Image Award, and an Ohioana Award.

Shaker Heights native Celeste Ng's first novel, EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, is an acute portrait of a Chinese-American family living in Ohio in the 1970s. It has garnered numerous accolades, appearing on the best of 2014 lists in the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, and Booklist. Her book has also been named #1 Book of the Year by Amazon.com.

Columbia University alumna Ann Hagedorn has worked as an educator, written for the Wall Street Journal, and has penned a wealth of narrative nonfiction. She wrote BEYOND THE RIVER, a documentation of the Underground Railroad in Ripley, Ohio, where she currently lives.

Since 1972, the comic strip FUNKY WINKERBEAN has charmed and riveted world-wide readers with stories involving students, ex-students, and faculty of the fictional Westview High School. The strip's creator, Tom Batiuk, draws all of the Funky Winkerbean stories from his Northeast Ohio home.

Though he's worked as a cartoonist, art director, puppeteer, and pop-up book engineer, Jeff Ebbeler is most famous for his abounding work as a children's book illustrator. His first venture into writing, CLICK, hit bookstores in 2015.

Northeast Ohioan Cinda Williams Chima has made a name for herself penning fantasy novels. She's the author of the New York Times bestselling Seven Realms series, and the Heir Chronicles series. Her newest book Flame Caster is the first of four books in the new Shattered Realms series.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins has reported for the Associated Press in Columbus for over seventeen years. Though he has penned two nonfiction books, his most recent novel, "Capitol Punishment", is the third installment in his Ohio-based mystery series featuring investigator Andy Hayes.