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 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.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home 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 lifelong loiterer along riverbanks and fiction-writing contemplative who lives in Montana. He is working on a novel that fuses his love for Asian wisdom traditions with the land and people of the American West.

JEFF GUNDY is the author of the poetry collection Spoken among the Trees and the nonfiction book Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing. He lives in northwest Ohio and teaches at Bluffton University, where a large group of turkey vultures gathers atop the main classroom building. His oldest son just completed a marathon, which revived his own interest in running, or at least plodding.

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 makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives 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’s favorite subject to photograph is corn. His work has been represented by Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty years. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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’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.