Gene Cryer

GENE CRYER spent 38 years as a journalist, including the final 15 as editor/vice president of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, before retiring to pursue the passion which led him into journalism--writing. While working on his novels, he has taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, conducted editing and writing workshops for the Florida Center for the Book and the National Writers Workshop and is a past president of the Writers' Network of South Florida.

He has been a Pulitzer juror, served on the alumni advisory committee of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, a past president of the Illinois AP Editors Association, the opening speaker at the 1994 World Editors Conference in Vienna, Austria, and won awards as a journalist, a manager and short story writer.

Since 2007, he has been a volunteer narrator at Insight for the Blind, producing recordings of periodicals for distribution by the Library of Congress and Talking Books Inc.