JOSEPH BATHANTI's collection of short stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize and will be published this fall by Eastern Washington University Press. He is a professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and 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 has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

ROBERT P. COOKE worked at British Petroleum for twenty-five years as a pipe fitter, welder, and trainer. He is now retired and stays home to cook, clean, and write poetry while his wife is at work. “I still get up at five in the morning as if I’m going to my former job,” he says. He lives in Highland, Indiana.

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’s latest book, PULSE: Heart of Jesus, A Conversion, is forthcoming from Viking. She is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and lives in Los Angeles.

JASON LANGER’s book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

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 is an adjunct photo instructor at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen.

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 resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

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.

JENNIFER WARBURG is a photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.