Meet Liz Jones, Graphic Novels Chair

Liz Jones has participated in the Cybils graphics group one way or another since 2007. For the past few years, a 90 hour work week put a damper on her posting at lizjonesbooks.livejournal.com — but she's happy to be down off that schedule in 2012. She's busily catching up on her reading, sending her college students off in search of …

Meet Karen Yingling, Our New Middle Grade Fiction Chair

A middle aged, middle school librarian from the Midwest, I've been blogging since 2006 at Ms. Yingling Reads. My students are impressed that I've read every hardcover fiction book in our school library, but it was really an evil plan to be allowed to read to my heart's content and be able to tell people to stop bugging me because …

Meet Anne Levy, Cybils Overlord

Oh, I give up. I've called myself the Cybils Editor, Cybils Sherpa, Cybils Admin. It doesn't matter. Every year, more than 100 bloggers give up any semblence of free time to become my minion for several months. For the organizers, it's a full six months. So I may as well wear my "overlord" mantel with pride while I perfect my …

Meet Jackie Parker, Young Adult Fiction Organizer

1,091. That’s how many teen-written reviews Jackie read over the summer. Actually it's more, but we won't count the ones that were plagiarized. Of course, this was done in between Harry Potter parties, tie-dying, book bowls, copious amounts of slimy plaster, writing clubs, and making teenagers put petroleum jelly on their noses. Despite former panelist's opinions, she is not the Mistress of the …

Meet Sheila Ruth, Fantasy & Science Fiction Organizer

Sheila is an empty-nester this year and is looking to fill those long, lonely hours with Cybils goodies, er goodness. She has never taught Defense Against the Dark Arts, but she does have a lifelong love of fantasy and science fiction, kindled at a young age by writers such as Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Norton and Tolkien, and rekindled by Rowling. …

Meet Jen Robinson, Literacy Evangelist

Jen Robinson divides her time between running around after her daughter, Baby Bookworm, and running her company, FabTime. FabTime is a small software firm that does reporting for companies that make computer chips. Baby Bookworm is a small person who cackles gleefully as she pulls the bookmarks out of books. When her responsibilities to Baby Bookworm and FabTime allow, Jen …

Meet Liz Jones, Graphic Novels Organizer

Liz Jones has participated in the Cybils graphics group since she was knee high to a grasshopper, or at least, since about 2007. In this time, she has enjoyed blogging about the titles she reads at lizjonesbooks.livejournal.com, as well as spreading the word about the diversity and quality of graphics in her largely graphic-free locale by: 1)sharing them with her …

Meet Kerry Millar, Middle Grade Fiction Organizer

It wouldn't be Fall without a lot of freshly sharpened pencils, my requisite new pair of school shoes, plenty of apple cider, homemade pie on Sunday and the Cybils. If I had to choose between my prize-winning apple pie and the Cybils, I'm not sure I could. I love pie a whole lot. Therefore, I love the Cybils a whole …

Meet Gina Ruiz, DoDA, er, Nonfiction MG/YA Organizer

Gina's been with the Cybils in one capacity or another since it started and thinks its a most wondrous thing. Gina has spent four years as a graphic novel panelist, last year she dabbled in poetry and this year (gulp) she is teaching Defense of the Dark Arts – er, make that she's an organizer for the nonfiction MG/YA category. …

Meet Jone MacCulloch, Poetry Organizer

Editor's note: Jone has written us a shadorma, a poem with a meter of 3-5-3-3-7-5. Estactic                     Organizerfor Poetry Northwest girl Been with the CYBILS from startChases dragonflies Jone writes for two blogs; Check It Out and Deo Writer, her poetry blog.