Sheldon TeitelbaumBORN IN MONTREAL IN 1955, Sheldon Teitelbaum attended Concordia University, where he earned an honors degree in history. Upon graduation in 1977, he came to Israel, where he joined the infantry and, later, the Education Corps, after which he was sentto Officer Training School and served as a staff officer for the Paratroopers Brigade for three years. During this time, he became a member of the editorial board of the Israeli magazine Fantasia 2000, and began writing the nation's first ever SF/F book review column to appear monthly in the daily newspaper, The Jerusalem Post. Upon completing his service, Teitelbaum began a journalism career working for the magazine Newsview as well as the Jerusalem Post, which put him to use as a night desk sub-editor and as a freelance writer on weekends. During the day he worked as a science writer for the Weizmann Institute of Science. Teitelbaum moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became Los Angeles Bureau Chief for the acclaimed film magazine Cinefantastique, a founding writer (and some years later, a senior writer) for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, and a senior writer for the Jerusalem Report. Additionally, he held down a day job for three years at the University of Southern California as a science writer and, later, for a subcontractor to the U.S. Department of Energy. Teitelbaum has published on SF/F-related and other themes in Al HaMishmar, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Forward, Time-Digital, Wired, The Montreal Gazette, SF Eye, Midnight Graffiti, Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd Ed. & Online Edition) and The Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd Ed.). He won Canada's first Northern Lights Award for Independent Journalism in 1998, and landed three Brandeis University/Jewish Press Association awards for excellence in news and cultural reportage. He lives in Southern California. Read More Read Less