WENDELL BERRY is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, English professor, and poet who lives in Henry County, Kentucky.

JON CAPUTO is a documentary and travel photographer. While living in Seattle, he worked for Real Change, a newspaper focusing on issues of poverty and homelessness. He now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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

DEANNA DIKEMAN lives in Columbia, Missouri, but grew up in Iowa and often returns there to photograph her relatives’ houses and backyards.

BILL EMORY has been a janitor, plumber, auto mechanic, and cat-scan technologist and has also taken photographs for more than thirty-five years. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

DIANE PORTER GOFF is a writer and artist who lives in the mountains of Virginia. She uses roadkill in her artwork and presently has a foxtail in her freezer (to kill the mites) and the head of a vixen buried in her yard (to decompose the flesh).

IVOR IRWIN teaches writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is a fanatical supporter of Manchester United Football Club, the only thing he misses about his hometown in Great Britain.

KAREN LANDMANN speaks twelve languages, including Sranan Tongo, the creole language of Suriname. She lives in New York City.

RENEE LERTZMAN moved to Brooklyn, New York, last October to study environmental psychology. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Speak magazine, Terra Nova, Parabola, and Orion Afield.

STEPHEN J. LYONS’s latest book is A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America (Globe Pequot). He lives in Monticello, Illinois, and teaches in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. To help overcome his recently discovered fear of bridges, he has been driving over short spans that cross the Mississippi River. His goal is to drive across the I-57 bridge over the Ohio River — more than three-quarters of a mile long — with his eyes open.

VINCENT PEREZ lives in Randle, Washington, and is a challenge-course manager in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Every Thursday night he plays guitar with the boys, but his first artistic love is the pinhole camera.

DANA PIANOWSKI is a photographer, painter, and mother of two daughters. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

GENEEN ROTH’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Ms., Time, New Age Journal, and the New York Times. Her latest book is When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair (Hyperion). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MELISSA SHOOK recently retired from teaching photography at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

SYBIL SMITH is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

GARY WALTS lives in Watertown, New York, and is a photographer with the Syracuse Post Standard.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.