RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MARSHALL BOSWELL teaches fiction writing and American literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion (University of Missouri Press) and has a story collection, In Between Things, forthcoming from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT’s fourth novel, Happy Baby, is being co-published this month by MacAdam/Cage and McSweeney’s. He lives in San Francisco but is currently on the road following the Democratic primaries and working on a book about the 2004 election.

SARA FERGUSON has lived and taken photographs in the American West and Australia. She currently lives in her hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Photographer MATTHEW GRAY lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

DUNCAN GREEN began taking photographs at ymca camp in Ohio when he was eleven. He is a staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives and lives in Olympia, Washington.

TAMA HOCHBAUM lives with her husband and two children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she cooks, sings, and plays guitar.

BAILEY HOUSE is a photographer living in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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.

LANCE JONES is a photographer living in Somerville, Massachusetts.

GILLIAN KENDALL is the author of the memoir Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet (University of Wisconsin Press). She cultivates a native garden and an Aussie identity in Melbourne, Australia.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

ROGER PFINGSTON taught English and photography for thirty years. One of his worst habits is thinking too much about the future, earning him the nickname “the great anticipator.” He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

JULIE REICHERT writes, teaches, and makes movies in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MARVIN W. SCHWARTZ is a photographer who lives in New York City. His work is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

REBECCA SEIFERLE’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Farmington, New Mexico.

GORDON STETTINIUS is an artist, teacher, and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. His work has been exhibited in New York City, the Netherlands, and Seattle, Washington.

RICHARD WHITTAKER is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California. He publishes an art magazine called works + conversations.

HARRY WILSON lives in Bakersfield, California.