J. M. Hochstetler

An award-winning author and editor, J. M. Hochstetler is the daughter of Mennonite farmers, a graduate of Indiana University, a professional editor, and a lifelong student of history. She spent many years as an editor with the United Methodist Publishing House before founding Sheaf House Publishers and is the author of award-winning historical fiction. She is a proud member of Daughters of the American Revolution and Historian of her local chapter.

Hochstetler's most recent release, A Season for the Heart, is a 2025 Christlit Book Awards winner. Her American Patriot Series is the only comprehensive historical fiction series on the American Revolution. Book 1, Daughter of Liberty, finaled in the 2024 American Legacy Book Awards. The Northkill Amish Series, coauthored with well-known Christian author Bob Hostetler, is based closely on the inspiring true story of their Hochstetler ancestors. Book 1, Northkill won the 2014 Forward Magazine's Indie Book of the Year Bronze Award for Adult Historical Fiction. Book 2, The Return, was named one of Shelf Unbound's 2018 Notable Indie Books and won Interviews and Reviews' 2017 Silver Award for Historical Fiction. Hochstetler's contemporary novel One Holy Night was the Christian Small Publishers 2009 Book of the Year and finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers 2009 Carol Award.