GREG AMES is the author of the novel Buffalo Lockjaw (Hyperion), which won the 2009 Book of the Year Award from the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has taught creative writing and literature at Brooklyn College and Binghamton University.

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 Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. 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 recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.

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’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.

JADINA LILIEN’s photographs of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota were recently shown at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She lives 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 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.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

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.