Our Team
Koehler Books is staffed by writers and authors just like you.
Our staff of writers, editors, designers and technicians are totally devoted to serving authors. Our goal is the same as yours: to craft the highest caliber of book possible and to sell lots of copies. Our two key words are quality and collaboration. We lift the author up to the big leagues of publishing and literature, and show them the way so that together we can make the author and book the best it can be.
- John KoehlerPresident and PublisherJohn is the company founder and runs its day-to-day operations. He is an award-winning graphics designer, and the author of 11 books. He was awarded the lifetime achievement Silver Medal by the Advertising Federation of Hampton Roads in 2016. He earned a BFA in Communications Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and attended graduate studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. John’s professional career includes being senior art director of a major advertising agency and running a design studio. He has helped run a ministry dedicated to helping children with disabilities. John made an international splash in 1991 by winning the Boomerang World Championship in Perth, Australia and was a member of the Foster’s Boomerang 2000 Team, a touring troop that taught professional athletes, and others, the gospel of boomerangs. John lives in Virginia Beach, VA and is married to Patty, with daughters Danielle and Kimmi.
- Becky HillikerVice President and Executive EditorBecky learned the power of words at the age of six, when she slid a note under her sister's door that said “I don’t love you—I don’t even like you.” That declaration moved her sister, who never tattled again. Becky coauthored the 2015 novel Sisters of Shiloh with that same ratfink sister for Harper Collins (Mariner Books). The book was longlisted for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Huffington Post, the Houston Chronicle, Military Spouse Magazine, and on Ancestry.com. Becky approaches editing with the belief that all stories have an emotional heart, regardless of genre, and she enjoys helping authors build from that guiding light. After bouncing around the country for the past few decades, courtesy of the US Navy, she has recently landed in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, four children, three dogs, one guinea pig, and numerous dust bunnies.
- Danielle KoehlerVice President and Design DirectorDanielle Koehler is a designer, illustrator, web programmer, and author. She graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Media Arts & Design. She has worked on design projects as well as traditional-media illustrations for clients around the world. She wrote and illustrated the middle grade novel The Other Forest which was published in English and Spanish in 2021. She currently lives in the land of volcanos in southern Chile with her husband, son, dog, and cat. Yes, she is John's daughter!
- Hannah WoodlanSenior EditorHannah Woodlan is a senior editor. She graduated the University of Virginia with a BA in English, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Old Dominion University. She interned at Port Folio Weekly in Norfolk, Virginia, and Albemarle Magazine in Charlottesville. She has an immense love for literature and film and currently resides in Fredericksburg with her husband, two cats, and a small flock of sassy chickens.
- Miranda DillonAssociate EditorMiranda Faye Dillon is an associate editor. She was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a BFA in creative writing and a minor in cinema studies. She is the award-winning author of The Unshatterables, a collection of short fictional stories about family, relationships, and grief. She loves nutrition, healthy supplements, making delicious smoothies, and traveling the world. She currently resides back home in Virginia Beach.
- Hannah TonsorAssociate Editor and Marketing CoordinatorHannah is an associate editor and marketing coordinator. She earned her BA in English, creative writing, and digital marketing from the University of Notre Dame, where she met her husband in her first poetry class. When she isn't reading books for work or pleasure, she can be found at the gym, cooking new meals, cheering on the Irish, or spoiling her two Siamese cats, Tullamore and Seamus. She currently lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
- Joe CoccaroEditor at largeJoe has assumed the more leisurely role of editor at large after a dozen years as Koehler Books executive editor. In as much, he'll continue burnishing author manuscripts and pitching in with submissions. Joe joined the company after three decades in the newspaper business as a writer, editor, and newsroom manager. Joe is a product of Syracuse University and has won dozens of writing awards, including first place in a national contest for his novel Woo-Woo. Joe lives on Virginia's remote Eastern Shore along the Chesapeake Bay where he enjoys kayaking, bicycling, motorcycling, walking his loyal pooch, and spending mornings on his porch sipping espresso while listening to hawks, herons, and song birds.
- Adrienne FolkertsPublishing AssociateAdrienne works closely with the design group and our authors and handles book orders, tip sheets and issues with distribution. She has a BA in English and a background in desktop publishing. She lives in Olathe, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City) and is married with three children.
- Lauren SheldonGraphic DesignerLauren Sheldon is a graphic designer from Savannah, GA. She attended Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in graphic design. When not pursuing her passion for book design, Lauren can be found spending time with her dogs, Bucky and Sadie, and catching up on her book club. In her free time, she also rebinds old well loved books for her friends and family. She loves to travel and New Zealand is next on her list for far away places to explore.
- Suzanne BradshawGraphic DesignerSuzanne Bradshaw is an illustrator and designer living in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. She received her BFA in New Media & Design from UNC Greensboro. She appreciates beautiful things, good food, and little details. In her free time, she enjoys doing yoga, hiking, going to the library, and hanging out with her dog Penny-Gail.
- Catherine HeroldGraphic DesignerCatherine Herold is an artist and designer living in Sharpsburg, Georgia, with her husband, sons, and dog. She received her BFA with a focus in Graphic Design from Georgia Southern University. In her spare time, she can be found working on a painting, starting a new "home improvement project", trying to beat her current video game, or shrinking her ever-growing TBR list.
- Greg FieldsSenior Acquisitions Manager & EditorGreg Fields is a literary Senior Acquisitions Manager & Editor. He is the author of Arc of the Comet, published by Koehler Books and nominated for the Cabell First Novel Award and the Kindle Book of the Year in Literary Fiction. His second novel, To the Waters and the Wild, is scheduled for release in spring, 2019. He is also the co-author with Maya Ajmera of Invisible Children: Reimagining International Development from the Grassroots, a nonfiction work released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. With a passion for great writing, baseball and good wine, Greg holds degrees from Rutgers and Notre Dame. He and his wife Lynn live in Manassas, Virginia.
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