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.

RUTH CRUMP is a photographer living in Silver Spring, Maryland.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in his hometown of Charlton Heights, West Virginia.

BILL EMORY has been a dishwasher, janitor, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, and CAT-scan technologist. He has also been a photographer for thirty-five years. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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.

BARBARA J. KLINE is a surrealist fine-art photographer who lives in the mountains of Idaho.

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.

LYN LIFSHIN is the author of The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (Texas Review Press), Another Woman Who Looks like Me (Black Sparrow and Godine Press), and Barbaro, a poetry collection in progress. She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

ALISON LUTERMAN blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

MEGAN MCNAMER prepared for a career in writing by studying ethnomusicology. “I like to write about geographies of ambivalence,” she says: “the liminal, in-between places where travelers meet their destinations.” Her essays have appeared in several anthologies and a variety of magazines, including Salon and Sports Illustrated. She lives in Missoula, Montana, and is currently at work on a book of essays.

SUSAN LIRAKIS NICOLAY is a photographer who lives in Sandwich, New Hampshire. She loves to learn new things and tries to follow the example of her mother, who got her PhD when she was seventy-six.

DAVID ROMTVEDT’s most recent book of poems is Some Church (Milkweed Editions). He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he plays dance music of the Americas with his band, the Fireants.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CINDY SHAFER is a photographer living in Los Altos Hills, California.

SPARROW resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

MAUREEN STANTON is a writer living in Maine. Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Creative Nonfiction and Fourth Genre. She talks almost as fast, and almost as much, as her mother.

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.

One of KATHERINE VAZ’s first published short stories appeared in The Sun, in 1988. Since then, her fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Glimmer Train, the Iowa Review, and the Antioch Review. She lives in Santa Ana, California, and is the author of two novels, Saudade (St. Martin’s Press) and Mariana (HarperCollins/Flamingo, UK). Her short-story collection Fado and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her story in the May 2002 issue is dedicated to her friend Mercedes Gomez, a musician who wrote a solo composition about steering a harp through traffic in Mexico City. The story's title was inspired by a child's drawing exhibited a decade ago at an art show in Laguna Beach, California.

ELLEN WALLENSTEIN teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute. She divides her time between New York City and Sherman, Connecticut.