Stars*

		Khadijah A. is a Wisconsin girl transplanted to Yemen, where she lived for nine years with her husband and eight children, before recently moving back to the United States. She is a writer, translator, fabric artist, and teacher. —read more...
		Judy Alter is the author of fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers. Her most recent book is a cozy mystery, No Neighborhood for Old Women. Judy recently retired as director of TCU Press, a position she has held for 23 years. —read more...
		Lee Ambrose: I am passionate about words! I enjoy reviewing books for the SCN Book Review Site almost as much as I enjoy reading the reviews posted by my sister reviewers. Reading and writing are such an important part of my life that I cannot imagine a day without actively reading or writing—or both! —read more...
		Susan Andrus: I am an energetic person who loves to read, write, walk, paint, teach, and play cello. I can do many activities that I would otherwise not have time for because I don't have a TV. Right now, I'm working on a series of articles regarding equal education for all. Maybe they will grow up to be a book someday. —read more...
		Rhonda Esakov: I am a volunteer instructor for Texas Parks and Wildlife, an NRA Certified Shooting Instructor/Range Officer and have managed my own tax practice for over 25 years. When not working or teaching gun and outdoor courses, I enjoy visiting caves, camping and canoeing. My writing includes a piece in the Kitchen Table Stories anthology... —read more...
		B. Lynn Goodwin is a freelance writer, editor, teacher, former caregiver, and the author of You Want Me To Do What?—Journaling for Caregivers (Tate Publishing). —read more...
		Judith Helburn has been involved with Sage-ing® since 1994. She is currently Editor of the SG Communicator and member of the Outreach Committee for the international Sage-ing Guild. Past national Sage-ing activities include Training Coordinator and member of the Coordinating Circle. Judith works with seniors in several other programs in Austin, Texas, including the Older Women's Legacy (OWL)-Circle memoir program of Story Circle Network. —read more...
		Susan Ideus. I've been a SCN member since January 2006—one of the best New Years' resolutions I've made! I've been fortunate enough to attend two SCN national conferences and several weekend retreats, and I facilitate online writing group #3. I contribute to SC Book Reviews and have had several pieces of my writing included in SCN publications. —read more...
		Judy King In thinking of ways to describe myself, "science nerd" keeps floating to the top, more so than "voracious reader" or "writer." So I'll go with that, although it's not the way I would have imagined describing myself when I was much younger. But my love of animals led to a love of nature led to a curiosity about how things work in the natural world, and there you have it—evolution into a science nerd. —read more...
		Penny Leisch is a writer, author, and resume specialist who lives in Austin, Texas. Her clients include the City of Tempe, Walsh America, Camping & RV Magazine, Warner Wrangler newspaper, Loving Pets Magazine, Garden and Hearth, Adams Media (Cup of Comfort anthology series), and many more. —read more...
		Sharon Lippincott lives near Pittsburgh, PA, and has been writing for thirty years. After retiring from the business world, she turned her focus to life story and memoir writing and leads workshops on these topics based on her latest book, The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing. —read more...
		Olga Livshin is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, Canada. Her articles and interviews appear regularly in local newspapers. She also writes fiction, and most of her protagonists are women: dancers, scientists, teachers, even magicians. Her fist contemporary women's novel, Lost and Found in Russia, was published in February 2013 under the pen name Olga Godim. —read more...
		Martha Meacham has a home nestled in motts of live oak and clumps of junipers on a piece of hardscrabble land southwest of Austin. The gentle rolling hills nearby remind her of the glacial drumlins of upstate New York where she grew up before leaving for college in Mexico. —read more...
		Jennifer Melville is a freelance writer and proud military wife living in Jacksonville, Florida. She has been published in Natural Awakenings, Women's Digest, Jax Air News, and multiple other publications and has a degree in English from the University of Maryland. —read more...
		Mary Ann Moore: I am a poet, writer and creativity facilitator in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Ever since carrying them around, for the feel and smell of them, I have loved books—before I had yet learned to read! —read more...
		Trilla Pando: After years of living in rural Georgia, I now lives in my favorite city, Houston, Texas where I write, do volunteer work, play with a grandson, and enjoy all the plays, concerts, museums and general fun I missed during her country years. (There's a time for everything.) I have been an SCN member for many years, as well as a contributing editor to the Story Circle Journal for several years and a member of the board. —read more...
		Doris Anne Roop-Benner: I have lived in Richardson, Texas, since 1973 and been a member of Story Circle since its creation in 1997. Born and raised in Philadelphia, I have been married to Bob for 42 years. —read more...
		Lisa Shirah-Hiers holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition, summa cum laude from Lawrence University and a Masters in Composition from UT Austin. A one-time classical radio announcer for KMFA in Austin, Texas, she now pursues a double career as a private piano, theory and composition teacher and freelance writer. —read more...
		Susan J. Tweit is the award-winning author of twelve books (including her memoir, Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey, and Colorado Scenic Byways, winner of the Colorado Book Award), numerous magazine articles, and newspaper columns. Visit her website. —read more...
		Sharon Wildwind is a Calgary, Alberta writer, who focuses on mysteries and memoirs. She has kept a journal since 1978 and has one published memoir, Dreams that Blister Sleep, based on the year she spent in Vietnam with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Her Viet Nam veterans mystery series includes Some Welcome Home (2005)... —read more...
		Linda Wisniewski: I joined Story Circle Network about eight years ago and have been an Internet chapter member almost as long. I've facilitated an e-circle, written book reviews and was one of the editors of the Kitchen Table Stories anthology. —read more...

Associates*

• Shawn LaTorre, former director of a special program in secondary education, lives in Austin, Texas & loves spending time with family, reading, gardening, biking, cooking and writing. She tells us, "Nothing is more thrilling than finding a good read and thinking about who and how it might be explored in an educational setting!" —read more...

• Edith O'Nuallain, mother of 5 and substitute teacher in a local primary school, lives in Wicklow, the Garden County of Ireland. She reads and writes whenever the opportunity presents itself to her, and has an insatiable appetite for buying books, a habit her dearly beloved husband prefers to call a disease! —read more...

• Juliet Porton is a Northern California freelance writer and mother of two. She loves having the chance to interview people who are passionate about what they do. Juliet enjoys talking and writing about books as much as she likes reading them. —read more...

Guests*

Editors*

	Susan Wittig Albert, Co-Editor: In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. —read more...
	Mary Jo Doig, Editor: As I have grown to seek and find deeper levels of my own story, I find I am also passionate about reading and nurturing other women's stories. Since 2001 I have been a SCN member, have led my internet writing circle 7 for six years, and have been editor of Story Circle Journal's "True Words From Real Women" for five years. I have found so many different ways to express my soul's longings in SCN. Writing book reviews is yet another way for I can both deepen and share my experience with a book that has been particularly meaningful to me. —read more...
	Barbara Heming, Distribution Editor: Ever since she learned to read, Barbara Heming has been a voracious reader. For her a snow day was a gift of time to journey into the worlds sandwiched between the covers of a book. She pursued a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature which opened doors into literature of other cultures. After moving to a remote canyon in northern New Mexico a few years ago, she turned her attention to her lifelong dream of writing fiction and has now completed a number of short stories and her first novel. —read more...
	Linda Hoye, Editor: I'm a Business Analyst, writer, adoptee, bibliophile, and somewhat-fanatical grandma. I recently published my memoir, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude (2012), and am a contributor to Adoption Voices Magazine. I live in the state of Washington with my husband and our two Yorkshire terriers where I'm counting down the months until I retire from corporate life and move to Canada to be closer to my grandchildren. You can connect with me on my blog, A Slice of Life Writing. —read more...
	Laura Strathman Hulka, Co-Editor. Born and raised in California, I spent nine years in Tennessee at the turn of the century, learning to speak Southern, and eight months in the Arizona desert, learning I really don't like heat! Presently, I live with my husband of 38 years and two dachshunds on 10 shared acres near Lake Oroville, CA. —read more...
	Judy Miller, Editor: Two years ago I took my husband's advice and began my writing career. It was in one of my writing classes that I came across Story Circle Network. I was drawn to the idea of women nurturing women in their quest to write and share their stories. I joined SCN almost a year ago and volunteered to become one the of the SCBR editors. —read more...
	Susan Schoch, Editor: As a freelance writer and editor, I specialize in memoir and personal history at my little cabin in Idledale, Colorado. The natural fit with Story Circle Network has been both motivating and fulfilling. Because I'm always discovering women's books that increase my awareness and stoke my passion for their stories, it's an honor to write reviews for SCBR and share those discoveries, and to work with the remarkable women who share my enthusiasm. —read more...

Editor Emerita

Paula Stallings Yost, Editor, 2002-2008: After a twenty-five-year career in public relations and journalism in Dallas, I returned to my roots in the piney woods of East Texas, working for a while as lifestyles editor for a small-town daily newspaper. In 1999, I established LifeSketches/ Heirloom Memoirs Publishing. —read more...

Inactive Reviewers*

Former Reviewers*

^* Stars have posted 10 or more reviews/interviews in the past 18 months and have their own web pages. Further classifications for Stars: SuperStar (25 reviews/interviews); StarBurst (50); NovaStar (75); SuperNova (100).

Editors procure / distribute books to our review team, edit reviews/interviews submitted by our review team, publicize posted reviews on our social media sites, and submit their own reviews/interviews.

Associate Reviewers have posted 5-9 reviews/interviews in the past 12 months.
Guest Reviewers have posted 1-4 reviews/interviews in the past 12 months.
Inactive reviewers haven't submitted a review in the past 12 months.
Former reviewers haven't submitted a review in the past 36 months.