A Brooklyn-based writer and critic, Eric Banks is the former editor of Bookforum and senior editor of Artforum. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2014.

Jane Ciabattari is a fiction writer, book critic and widely published journalist. She is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, the nonfiction book Winning Moves (a Literary Guild offering) and the e-book To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire, which is based on her Columbia Journalism Review piece on Time-Warner merger. Her reviews and features have appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, Bookforum, NPR.org, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, Threepenny Review, Ms., The East Hampton Star, among other publications. A longtime contributing editor and columnist for Parade, she has been managing editor of the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, and managing editor of Redbook, editor in chief of Dial, the public television magazine. She serves on the executive board of the Overseas Press Club. For more information: www.janeciabattari.com . She was NBCC president from 2008-2011. Her current term on the board ends in 2012.

Rigoberto González, author of eight books and recipient of both Guggenheim and NEA grants, reviews for the El Paso Times twice a month and is currently teaching at the MFA writing program of Rutgers—Newark, the State University of New Jersey. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2012.

Mary Ann Gwinn is the book editor at The Seattle Times. She feeds the thirst of readers in America’s Most Literate City by putting out the Sunday books page, assigning and editing reviews, and writing about books and authors in a column that runs each Monday in the Seattle Times. Before taking on the book editor’s job in 1998 she was an assistant city editor, feature writer and environmental reporter. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for her contribution to the Times’ coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She grew up in a hot and humid town in eastern Arkansas where there was nothing to do but read, and the musty smell of old books makes her very happy indeed. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2012.

Barbara Hoffert is Editor of Library Journal’s book review, which publishes 6000 reviews annually. She assigns fiction and poetry reviews for the magazine and is also responsible for the magazine’s popular Prepub Alert column, which previews major releases four months in advance of publication. She was president of the National Book Critics Circle for three years, having been the board member for six years, and was chair of the Materials Selection Committee of the RUSA (Reference and User Services Assn.) division of the American Library Association. IN 2006, She won ALA-RUSA’s Louis Shores’ Greenwood Publishing Group award for excellence in reviewing. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Steven G. Kellman was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2007.  His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Texas Observer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Huffingtonpost.com, Chicago Tribune, Review of Contemporary Fiction, the Believer, Bookforum, and Georgia Review.  His books include Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (Norton, 2005), The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska, 2000), Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (Archon, 1985), and The Self-Begetting Novel (Columbia, 1980).  Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  He served two previous terms on the board of the NBCC, from 1996-2002.  His current term runs until 2012.

Karen R. Long has served as the book editor at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland since February 2005.  She is responsible for directing the paper’s book coverage, writing stories and weekly reviews.  She has covered science, religion and medicine for The Plain Dealer, and worked as one of its investigative reporters.  In 2002, the Associated Press named her the best feature writer in Ohio, and in 2006 she won the University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism award for best magazine profile.  She is the mother of three children.  Her NBCC term expires in 2012.

Craig Morgan Teicher is the poetry editor for Publishers Weekly.  His reviews also appear in many other publications, including Bookforum, Boston Review and Time Out New York.  His first book of poetry, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, came out in 2008.  His website is www.craigmorganteicher.com.  His term on the board ends in 2012.

Mark Athitakis’ reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Kirkus Reviews, and numerous other publications. He is a contributor to The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors (2000), a co-writer of The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs of Unintelligent Life in the Workplace (2004), and has spoken at events hosted by American Independent Writers, the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Book Critics Circle. Since 2008 he has operated the literary blog American Fiction Notes (http://www.markathitakis.com), where he writes regularly on books, criticism, and publishing. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Colette Bancroft’s current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Gregg Barrios is a book critic, journalist and playwright. His reviews and features have appeared in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Texas Observer, LA Weekly, NPR and the Huffington Post.  He is a former book editor of the San Antonio Express-News. He is the author of four books of poetry and is a published playwright. He is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant, a Sandra Cisneros - Macondo Foundation Grant, several NEH fellowships, and a CTG-Mark Taper Theater Fellowship. His term on the board ends in 2013.

David Biespiel is the author of a half dozen books, most recently The Book of Men and Women and Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces. He is a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Parnassus, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and The New Republic, and he is the former editor of Poetry Northwest. He has been honored with a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, a Lannan Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. In 1999, in Portland, Oregon, he founded the literary studio The Attic: A Haven for Writers. In 2003, he became the poetry columnist for The Oregonian. His column is the longest running newspaper column on poetry in the United States. Since 2008, he has been a regular contributor to Politico. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Stephen Burt’s current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

David Haglund is the managing editor of PEN America, the literary magazine published by PEN American Center. He is also the poetry editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Prior to working at PEN he taught literature and writing at Harvard, Oxford, and Hunter College. He contributes regularly to Slate and Bookforum and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Observer, The Believer, and other publications. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Carolyn Kellogg is staff writer at the L.A. Times where she writes reviews, features, covers the publishing industry and maintains the award-winning book blog, Jacket Copy. Her reviews have appeared in other publications, including Bookforum and the Columbia Journalism Review. Her website is www.carolynkellogg.com. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2013.

Benjamin Moser is a Contributing Editor to Harper’s Magazine and a regular contributor to publications in the United States, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He has published translations from the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a 2010 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2014.

Laurie Muchnick is book editor at Bloomberg News. She’s also been the book editor of Newsday and an editor at the Village Voice Literary Supplement. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2012.

Published in Open City, Popmatters, Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, Artforum, Paper Magazine, New York Press, Time Out New York, BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy and many other venues; author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte), THE WHOLE (MTV Books), the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL’S CHANCE (Roof), the play ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Plume), and the recently released TALES OF WOE (MTV Press); MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; faculty in Creative Writing at New School University and Columbia University. His term on the board ends in 2012.

Carlin Romano, Critic-at-Large of The Chronicle of Higher Education and Literary Critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer for 25 years, teaches media theory and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. A former President of the NBCC, his criticism has appeared over the years in The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Slate, Salon, Tikkun, the Times Literary Supplement, Book Forum and many other publications. In 2006, he was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, cited by the Pulitzer Board “for bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics.” His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2012.

Susan Shapiro is the author of 8 books, including the memoirs “Lighting Up,” “Five Men Who Broke My Heart” and “Only As Good as Your Word.”  Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe,  The Nation, Salon and Daily Beast.  She’s won distinguished teaching awards at NYU and the New School, where she currently teaches journalism. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2014.

Elizabeth Taylor is the books editor of the Chicago Tribune. Her current term on the NBCC board ends in 2014.

David L. Ulin is book critic, and former book editor, of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author, most recently, of “The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time.” His current term on the NBCC board ends in 2014.

Marcela Valdes received the Roger Shattuck Award for Criticism from the Center for Fiction in 2010. She is the book editor of The Washington Examiner and a contributing editor for Publishers Weekly. Her work also appears regularly in The Nation and The Washington Post, among other publications. In 2009-2010 she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her website is: http://www.marcelavaldes.com Her current term on the board ends in 2014.

Oscar Villalon is the managing editor at ZYZZYVA. The former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, his reviews and essays have appeared in VQR, Black Clock, the Believer, NPR.org, the Los Angeles Times, and the Rumpus.net, among other places. He and his family live in San Francisco. His current term on the board ends in 2014.

Eric Miles Williamson is author of three novels, three books of criticism, and a short story collection. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other venues. The French magazine, Transfuge, recently cited Williamson as one of the “Twelve Great Authors of the World.” He currently teaches at the University of Texas, Pan-American, a dozen miles north of the Rio Grande. His current term on the board ends in 2014.