GREG AMES lives in Brooklyn, New York. His stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Brooklyn Review, Literal Latte, and Other Voices. He received a special mention in 2003 in the Pushcart Prize anthology.

PEGGY SUE AMISON has been a photographer for more than twenty years. In 2000 she moved from California to County Cork, Ireland, where she directs the Sirius Arts Centre.

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

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

MARSHALL CLARKE’s photographs have appeared in Photographer’s Forum and the Photo Review. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

LEIGH DAVIS is a photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, RES, and Mademoiselle.

After working for twenty-five years as a professional gardener, CHARLES GOODRICH has worn out his knees, so he’s retooling to become a fifth-grade teacher. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and has written two poetry chapbooks: Insects of South Corvallis (Knot House) and New Pests Every Day.

ROBERT GRAHAM is a frustrated amateur photographer living in Chatham County, North Carolina. He is also art director at The Sun. He recently parted with a beloved electric guitar, after age and propriety overtook him.

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.

LYNNE JAMNECK is a photographer and writer from South Africa. She currently lives in New Zealand and is the editor and creator of Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

JADINA LILIEN is a photographer and filmmaker living in New York City.

CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ owns a window-cleaning company in Clintondale, New York. His photographs have been published in the journals American Photo and Shots and the book NYC: Life Going On (Syracuse University Press).

JOHN MILISENDA is a commercial photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His photographs have been published in the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine. 

STEPHANIE MILLS has been active in the ecology movement for more than thirty years, and in 1996 Utne Reader named her as one of the world’s leading visionaries. Her books include In the Service of the Wild (Beacon Press), Whatever Happened to Ecology?, and Turning Away from Technology (both Sierra Club Books). She lives in the Great Lakes bioregion in the upper Midwest.

ALYSHA PITSICALIS is a photographer living in Santa Barbara, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE lives in Powell, Wyoming, and 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.

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).

CARROLL ANN SUSCO’s writing has been published in Gulf Coast and the Beloit Fiction Journal. She teaches English at Halifax Community College and lives in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

LISA ZIMMERMAN’s poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines, most recently Heliotrope and Rhino. Her second chapbook, Traveling Among the Animals, is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. She teaches creative writing at the University of Northern Colorado and keeps company with good people as well as three horses, a dog, two cats, and many wild creatures around the lake where she lives.