JOSEPH BATHANTI’s most recent book, a collection of poems, is Restoring Sacred Art. Named by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, he is professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and also writer-in-residence at the university’s Watauga Global Community. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

JEFF W. BENS teaches in the film department at the North Carolina School of the Arts. His first novel, Albert, Himself, was published by Delphinium Books in August.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

ROBERT P. COOKE is finally retired and lives with his wife in Highland, Indiana. He’s been writing poems and sending them to friends instead of sending them out for publication.

MAGGIE DEVORE-JELIC is a photographer living in Mendocino, California.

IRVING GOLDWORM started taking pictures in 1962. Before that he was "an English major and left-of-center snob who thought that pictures were for people who moved their lips when they read." He lives in Sherman Oaks, California.

DERRICK JENSEN’s most recent book is titled As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Crescent City, California.

MICHAEL KANE lives in San Francisco.

KAREN KEATING is the director of Photoworks, Inc., a nonprofit photo-education program in Glen Echo, Maryland. She has traveled to Cuba four times and is working on a book of photographs of Cuban women.

HEATHER KING is an ex-lawyer, an ex-drunk, a Catholic convert, and the author of three memoirs: Parched (the dark years), Redeemed (crawling toward the light), and Shirt of Flame. She blogs at www.shirtofflame.blogspot.com.

JASON LANGER’s photos have appeared in American Photo, Life, and Vanity Fair, and his work is represented in the Sir Elton John permanent collection, the Sir Mick Jagger permanent collection, and Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

G. ALAN MYERS likes to cook up a mean spaghetti Bolognese when he’s not working on new portraits. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

KAY MARIE PORTERFIELD lives in Englewood, Colorado. She is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions, to be released this month by Facts on File, Inc.

DOUG RHINEHART’s first book of photographs is Desert Adagio (People’s Press). He is a retired community-college administrator and photography instructor who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JENNY L. SCHWEITZER recently graduated from NYU with a degree in film and television. She is currently working on an independent feature film and lives in Brooklyn.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

PARSLEY STEINWEISS writes: “In case you were wondering, yes, my parents were hippies.” She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied photography and painting and worked at the student radio station.

MICHAEL VENTURA is a writer who teaches high school in the San Fernando Valley.

JENNY WARBURG’s photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Time. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.