Clay Cormany

Clay Cormany is the author of two YA novels. Fast-Pitch Love (Astraea Press, 2014) combines the angst and thrill of teenage romance with softball competition. The Bullybuster (KDP, 2019) also involves a teenage romance as well as robots and revenge.

Before writing his novels, Clay spent over 25 years as a writer and editor for Ohio’s State Board of Education. His creative work has appeared in numerous central Ohio publications, including the Columbus Dispatch and Spring Street, Columbus State Community College’s literary magazine. He has also edited numerous books, including a three-volume biography of Christopher Columbus and A Death Prolonged by Dr. Jeff Gordon, which received coverage in the New York Times and on PBS.

Clay is involved in several writers group, including Writers' Ink and the GEM-C Writers of Columbus State Community College. In 2018, the latter group published Lost and Found: An Anthology of Poems, Memoirs, and Stories. Two of Clay's shorter works -- "Man vs, Squirrel" and "Losing Brian" -- appear in this volume.

When he is not writing, Clay enjoys reading and bicycling. He loves his wife Becky, and his children, stepchildren, and grandchildren. He is a tutor at Columbus State Community College and a committee member for the 1Girl Project, an initiative that seeks to develop the leadership potential of middle school and high school girls. He also supports literacy and arts programs, especially in his home community of Worthington. Clay tries to live by the Golden Rule and hopes to leave the world a better place than he found it.