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 photographs have been published in Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

POE BALLANTINE does not need bifocals, he says, as he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose to read. He is the author of the true-crime book Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, due out in 2012, and the subject of the documentary Poe Ballantine, A Writer in America (copies of which can be purchased for $13.99, shipping included, from Al Saperstein, P.O. Box 111, Earleton, Florida, 32631). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

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’s photography books include Convergence, Among the Ashes, and Kutuuka. She has been taking photographs since she was three, when she took pictures of her stuffed bunny. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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 who lives 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 lives in New England, where she works with the elderly in their homes and is at war with her rooster.

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

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 photos have appeared in American Photo, Life, and Vanity Fair, and his work is represented in the Sir Elton John permanent collection, the Sir Mick Jagger permanent collection, and Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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 teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

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 recently retired from teaching photography at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

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.