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.

COLIN CHISHOLM lives in Missoula, Montana. His book Through Yup’ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family is available from Alaska Northwest Books. On the same day The Sun accepted his story "Flesh and Blood" for publication, he was reunited with his birth mother.

Photographer PETER J. CROWLEY lives in Norwich, Vermont. "For most of the past thirty years I've been making statements with my images," he says. "Now I seem to be posing more questions." He has self-published one book of photographs, All the Usual Subjects.

STEVE DONOSO organizes events that point towards our awakening awareness. He lives in mid-coast Maine and also directs the International Film Festival of the Spirit.

ALICIA ERIAN’s first collection of short stories, The Brutal Language of Love, is currently out in paperback (Random House). A second collection, The Finer Points of Men, and a novel, Welcome to the Moral Universe, are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. Her fiction has appeared most recently in Playboy, Zoetrope, and the Iowa Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of Among the Ashes and Convergence (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and has recently become an empty nester.

SUSAN L. FELDMAN’s essay “On Writing a Screenplay” appeared in the Southern Humanities Review and was chosen as one of the Notable Essays of 2000 in The Best American Essays 2001. Her essays have also appeared in Ontario Review, Epoch, Connecticut Review, the Massachusetts Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Room of One’s Own. She lives in San Francisco and is currently working on an essay collection.

ANDERS GOLDFARB is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

DUNCAN GREEN first discovered his love of photography at YMCA camp when he was eleven. He lives in Olympia, Washington, and is staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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

JERRY MARCACCINI is a photographer living in Eveleth, Minnesota.

DANA PIANOWSKI is a photographer, painter, and mother of two daughters. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

VIRGINIA SORRELLS is a photographer living in Chicago, Illinois.

ECKHART TOLLE is a German-born spiritual counselor and teacher working in Europe and North America. He is the author of The Power of Now and Practicing the Power of Now (both New World Library). He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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

JENNIFER WARBURG is a photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.