ANTLER is the former poet laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and author of Exclamation Points Ad Infinitum! (Centennial Press). His poems have been included in the anthologies Poets against the War (Nation Books) and Poetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press). He lives in Milwaukee.

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.

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

CARY CLIFFORD lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has exhibited her photographs most recently in New York, Pittsburgh, and Berlin.

ELIZABETH CREWS is a photographer living in Berkeley, California.

DAVID JAMES DUNCAN is a father, a renowned fly fisherman, and a practitioner of what he calls “direct, small-scale compassion-activism.” He lives in Montana and is at work on a novel titled Eastern Western, which attempts to reconcile his western boots and Eastern books.

JEFF GUNDY’s poetry manuscript Deerflies won the 2003 Editions Prize. His most recent prose book is Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (State University of New York Press). He teaches English at Bluffton College in Ohio.

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.

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

ALISON LUTERMAN is adjusting to domestic bliss, milking the chickens and harvesting the cactus with her beloved on their little homestead in Oakland, California. 

MARTIN D. MITCHINSON is a photographer living in San Diego, California.

JAIME O’NEILL writes regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee. He hopes to continue writing and teaching for a long time, though he is significantly more than half finished. He lives in Magalia, California.

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.

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

GREGORY THORP lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and takes photographs commercially for several barge lines on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His personal subject of choice, however, is corn, in all its forms.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ERIC WARGO is a science writer and editor with an interest in photography and film. He lives in Washington, DC.

ANNA M. WARROCK lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she writes poetry, gardens in the city, and loves shyly, but without restraint.

LOUANNE WATLEY lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her work is archived at the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have been published in the Carolina Quarterly, Calyx, and North Carolina Literary Review.

HARRY WILSON lives in Bakersfield, California.