Educated on four continents, Betsy Woodman has worked as a research editor, music director, teacher, software engineer, and evaluator of youth programs. She reviewed for Kliatt for thirty-four years. Her interests in cross-cultural arts range from Scottish music to Bollywood movies.
Bette Ammon is the Director of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Carol Kellerman taught Spanish before becoming a secondary school librarian, receiving the AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 1986. She now promotes and participates in the "reading to a dog" program for elementary students who are having reading problems. She has reviewed audio books for 15 years
Carol Reich was a youth services librarian and then YS division manager for many years and has also recently taken over the adult division of her public library, serving as Reader Services Manager. She wrote audiobook reviews for KLIATT from 1992 to 2008.
Francine Levitov was a high school
English teacher and had a second career in law as a New York public
defense attorney before discovering audiobooks. Now in her third professional reincarnation, she is a former KLIATT audiobook reviewer and, along with Jean Palmer, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.
Hugh M. Flick, Jr. has a PhD in Sanskrit, a JD, and an MBA. He has taught at Harvard and at Yale and is currently the Dean of Silliman College at Yale.
Irene Bessette has worked with various animal organizations over many years; has a dog, a cat and several horses. And she has been an audio listener for many, many years as well. She is responsible for finally convincing SoundCommentary's Editor Jean Palmer to listen to her first audiobook!
Janet Julian was a high school English teacher forthirty-five years and a KLIATT reviewer for thirty-two. She retired in 2001 and gives audiobooks to those friends who still commute.
Jean Palmer was a librarian in a public library, then a librarian/educator at the largest private high school library in the US. She also wrote and edited audiobook reviews at KLIATTand many other national and local newspapers and magazines. She is, of course, an audiobook fanatic and, along with Fran Levitov, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.
Jean Palmer and Francine Levitov are founding co-editors of Sound Commentary.
Jodi Israel has her Masters in Library Science and is a former school librarian currently working in the strange world of banking compliance. She has fed her fiction addiction by reviewing audiobooks for KLIATT and Library Journal for the better part of two decades. But she isn't old!
The late John E. Boyd was involved in education for 50 years. He held degrees from Penn State and Temple U. and taught at all levels from elementary to graduate school. He served in various editorial capacities for the International Reading Association. He grew up in the pre-TV era "when radio was king" so the transition to audiobooks was a natural.
Mary Purucker was a school librarian at all levels, taught Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature at several universities, has written many reviews for professioal journals,and now works in the Children's Department of a public library.
Matt Aptekar is a computer helpdesk manager and an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Matt is a story teller and a listener.
Melody Moxley is an Administrative Services Manager of the Rowan Public Library and a former reviewer for KLIATT.
Miles Klein practiced optometry in New York for 41 years (until he got it right). His retirement has taken him from New York to New Jersey to Florida to Texas while indulging in his great passions: grandparenting, Scrabble, volunteer work, nature, audio books, cooking . . . and did we mention grandparenting?
Nancy Crowder-Chaplin was a Director of Religious Education for a Unitarian-Universalist church for ten years and, for the last 10 years, a Department of Correctional Education librarian at The Virginia Correctional Center for Women where she also co-ordinates a college program for incarcerated women.
Nola Theiss was a high school teacher, owned her own business, was elected Mayor of Sanibel, FL, and is now Executive Director of Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships, Inc. She has written reviews for local newspapers and the KLIATT Journal for over 10 years.
Professor Norma L. Betz earned her doctorate from Drew University in New Jersey. A financial aid director and professor of sociology and history for many years at New Jersey colleges, she presently works and teaches at Ocean County College. She and her husband Allen make their home with Quincy, their beloved Weimaraner, in Manahawkin, on the New Jersey Shore.
Pat Dole holds an undergraduate degree in English and an MLS. She has conducted workshops and written 2 hardcover and 5 softcover publications, as well as articles and reviews. She was born loving to read.
Rhoda Michaels is a figment of Francine Levitov's imagination. So is Naomi Gurbler. For those interested in actual poets and their work reviewed in this issue, we highly recommend The Essential John Milton and our Editor's Pick of the Month, Your Own Sylvia, a unique, creative account of the life of Sylvia Plath.
Jean Palmer and Francine Levitov wish all of their SoundCommentary readers a happy April Fool's Day.
Rozelle Overmire is a resident of San Francisco and a former KLIATT reviewer.
Sherri Forgash Ginsberg has been a law librarian and a reference and children's librarian in New Jersey's busiest public library. She has designed two libraries and currently works with children in grades K-12 and as a consultant to a local college.
Shirley Fetherolf has worked as a library media specialist in six states, teaching grades K-12. She presently works at an award-winning magnet high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Stephanie Squicciarini is, among other things, the Teen Services Librarian at Fairport (NY) Public Library, the Founder and Director of the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival, and an audiobook addict. In her "spare" time she serves on the Board of Trustees for her hometown library and on numerous YALSA committees.
Steve Seddon is a lover of books who discovered audio books when he began buying them for his father who'd begun to lose his sight. At that time he was travelling 30,000 miles a year in his car, running an elearning business. He soon found he was no longer buying them for his dad but merely to fuel his own craving.
Sue Rosenzweig reviewed audiobooks for KLIATT.
Susan Allison was a Maine high school librarian for 22 years, a children's librarian in a Maine public library, and a high school/middle school librarian at a private school in Thessaloniki, Greece. She wrote book and audiobook reviews for "KLIATT Reviews of Selected Books, Educational Software and Audiobooks."
Susan Offner teaches biology at Lexington High School, Lexington, MA. She has been active in national biology curriculum revisions. She has been reading books on tape for nearly 20 years and for many of those was a reviewer for KLIATT.
Tony Attwood lives in England where he is chairman of a media and advertising agency.
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