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 renowned fly fisherman and the author of several books, including the novel The River Why (Sierra Club Books) and the nonfiction collection God Laughs & Plays (Triad Books). He lives in Montana and is at work on a novel that attempts to reconcile his western boots and Eastern books, titled Eastern Western.
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 is a photographer and social worker who lives in New York City. She speaks twelve languages and is working on her thirteenth: Twi, a language spoken in Ghana.
ALISON LUTERMAN blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. 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 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 writes, "I am a recent PhD in anthropology, and therefore unemployed." He lives in Griffin, Georgia, and takes photographs with plastic toy cameras. His pictures of Scotland and the American South can be viewed online.
ANNA M. WARROCK lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she writes poetry, gardens in the city, and loves shyly, but without restraint.
LOUANNE WATLEY is a photographer and writer who lives with her dog, Loulou, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
HARRY WILSON is retired after teaching photography at Bakersfield College for thirty-four years. He lives in Bakersfield, California.
On the Cover
“This photograph was taken in 1999 when my friend’s son was nine. It was part of a larger series made in settings reminiscent of my childhood in Kentucky. I used Polaroid film so he could see the images we were getting. Gradually, the project became a joint effort. He’s twelve now and nursing a dirt-bike injury. We’re still friends.”
— LOUANNE WATLEY




