DAVID ANDREWS likes to take buses to the end of their routes and photograph the people he meets there. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

ROY ARENELLA’s work has been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

JON CAPUTO is a documentary and travel photographer. While living in Seattle, he worked for Real Change, a newspaper focusing on issues of poverty and homelessness. He now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

BLEU CEASE is a photographer living in Rochester, New York.

JANE EKLUND’s recent obsessions include the Virgin Mary, Amelia Earhart, and Suzanne Pleshette. She edits a weekly newspaper in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and her poems have appeared recently in Poetry Northwest, the Southern Poetry Review, and the Larcom Review.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the author of Kutuuka (Yellow Bird Press), a collection of photographs and drawings of and by the children at Saint Mary Kevin Orphanage in Uganda. Proceeds from sales of the book go to the orphanage through the Change the Truth Fund.

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

MICHAEL GALINSKY is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician living in Brooklyn, New York.

GRAHAM HEWSON lives in San Francisco and has had stories published in the Atlantic Monthly, Fourteen Hills, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, and Crazyhorse. His story in the June 2002 issue was inspired by Italo Calvino’s story “Numbers in the Dark.”

KATHRYN HUNT is a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared in Willow Springs, Crab Creek Review, and Calyx. She recently pulled up stakes in Seattle and moved up the coast to Port Townsend, Washington, where she and her longtime companion are building a house. Until their new home is finished, she is a gardener without a garden; she is trying to be patient.

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.

LOIS JUDSON is a writer who lives in Vermont with her boyfriend and her neurotic cat. She is amazed to discover that getting sober has left her with writer’s block, so she spends her time quilting, gardening, and admiring the mushrooms that grow in her yard.

EDIS JURCYS is the author of a book of photographs titled Gijos (Thread). He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he collects vegetables from his garden every morning for a green breakfast drink.

SUNITI LANDGE lives with her children in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born and raised in India, but has lived outside the subcontinent for sixteen years, first in England and then in Canada. She writes for Performing Arts and Entertainment magazine and has had one short story published in the Alaska Quarterly Review.

JASON LANGER’s book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

ALANE SALIERNO MASON is a book editor in New York City. She translated, as a labor of love, Elio Vittorini’s magnificent short novel Conversations in Sicily (New Directions). “The Exegesis of Eating” was selected for Best Spiritual Writing 2001, edited by Philip Zaleski, and will also appear in We Begin with Food, an anthology of Italian American women writing on food, forthcoming from the Feminist Press.

MARJORIE NICHOLS is a photographer living in Somerville, Massachusetts.

MAGGIE PRESTON is a photographer living in Healdsburg, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE travels with his wife and fox terriers, Pokey and Picasso, searching for the perfect pizza. He lives in Powell, Wyoming, where he teaches photography at Northwest College.

RUTH L. SCHWARTZ’s newest book is Edgewater (HarperCollins), a 2001 National Poetry Series winner. She teaches at California State University, Fresno, and lives in Oakland.

MELISSA SHOOK lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and recently retired from teaching photography at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. “I’d like to have been a thoroughbred trainer,” she says, “but, alas, it’s too late.”

SUZI Q. VARIN is a self-described “punk-rock tomboy” who photographs weddings for a living.

HARRY WILSON lives in Bakersfield, California.