Beth Saulnier is a reporter, writer, and editor living in Ithaca, NY. She was born in North Adams, MA, went to high school (Middlesex School) in Concord, MA, and graduated from Vassar College in 1990 with a BA in French and Spanish. At Vassar, she was editor-in-chief of the student paper. She spent exactly three weeks in graduate school at Cornell University (in communication) before fleeing back to journalism; she's spent a total of five years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Massachusetts and New York.

Since 1992, she's been the film critic for The Ithaca Journal, writing an AP-award-winning column called "Saulnier on Cinema." She also co-hosts a movie-review show, TAKE TWO, on Ithaca's Channel 13. Presently, she is associate editor of the Cornell University alumni magazine.

She is a member of the board of the directors of the Tompkins County (NY) SPCA, the mother of two dogs and two cats (all shelter animals), and an ardent vegetarian who's proud to live in what The Utne Reader called "the most enlightened city in the USA."