Name: Sandra K-Horn Talks with Ohioana Library’s Kim Kiehl About Latest Novel!
Start: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-18T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Gramercy Books

$Sandra K-Horn Talks with Ohioana Library\u2019s Kim Kiehl About Latest Novel!$

Writer's latest historical fiction, The Lady in Gray, features a fifteen-year-old girl disguised as a boy and is set during the Civil War.
About this Event

Join author Sandra K-Horn for the launch of her latest historical fiction, The Lady in Gray, set during the Civil War. Sandra will be in conversation with Kimberlee Kiehl, Executive Director of Ohioana Library.

Registration for this free event is on Eventbrite.

OHIOANA LIBRARY is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this author evening.

To save her reckless younger brother from the Confederate army in 1861, fifteen-year-old Lydia Aber disguises herself as a boy and ventures into the heart of the Civil War in The Lady in Gray. Lydia’s quest for family becomes a crucible of survival, forcing her to navigate bloody battlefields, forbidden love with a doomed soldier, and the grim reality of a Union Pr*son camp, forging a woman of unbreakable will from the ashes of a nation at war. Her dedication to preserving the memory of the soldiers who died results in her haunting presence.

Sandra K-Horn is an author known for both fiction and nonfiction works. She has written novels such as Downward Spiral and The Springridge Incident, as well as a nonfiction book Undercover: Becoming Street Smart in Central Ohio. She has received an Honorable Mention from the Eric Hoffer Award (2008), was featured in the Ohioana Library Festival (2021), and appeared on Amazon's Bestseller list for True Crime Biographies (2024). She will be the featured author in the show "Ekphrasis" at the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center in the Fall of 2027.

Dr. Kimberlee Kiehl, who joined Ohioana Library as their Executive Director in May 2024, is an experienced leader in the nonprofit, museum, and university sectors. She’s held upper leadership roles at the Ohio High School Athletic Association, Center of Science and Industry (COSI), and the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center. She was also an Associate Professor in the College of Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Kim earned her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Penn State University.