CHARLIE GEER is a visiting professor of English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His work has recently appeared in Tin House and Bloomsbury Magazine.

Photographer MATTHEW GRAY lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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.

MICHAEL HACKER is a photographer living in Los Angeles, California.

ADRIANNE HARUN’s short-story collection, The King of Limbo, was published by the Overlook Press as part of the Sewanee Writers’ Series in 2001. A paperback edition will be published by Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books in September 2002. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

KIM HOOD is a photographer living in Seattle, Washington.

KIM INDRESANO is a photographer living in San Francisco, California.

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.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

GREG KING is a writer who lives with his family in the Salmon Mountains of northern California.

ALISON KRISCENSKI is a photographer living in Burlington, Connecticut.

CHRISTOPHER LOCKE’s essay, "Possessed," [April 2007] is from a memoir-in-progress called Speaking in Tongues. He hopes that a month in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, will help him complete the book. If not, he says, at least he’ll be able to indulge in some pulled-pork tacos and a little mescal.

R.A. McBRIDE is the author of Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres, for which she received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a founding member of Point Blank, an experimental photography group in San Francisco.

Eight years ago, BRAD PHALIN abandoned his career as a newspaper photographer to travel the back roads and take odd jobs. Since then, he has washed windows in Chicago, set up tents in New Orleans, and worked on a farm in Arizona. He currently lives in Marblehead, Ohio.

MAGGIE PRESTON is a photographer living in Healdsburg, California.

GYPSY RAY is a photographer who lives outside of Kilkenny City, Ireland. She teaches part time at Ormonde College.

JENN REIDEL is a writer, photographer, and website designer who lives in Vashon, Washington.

JOHN ROSENTHAL lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His book of photographs is called Regarding Manhattan (Safe Harbor Books).

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

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.

MARK SMITH-SOTO is the director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the longtime editor of International Poetry Review. His most recent book of poetry is Any Second Now, and he translated Fever Season: Selected Poetry of Ana Istarú.

CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the novel Torch (Houghton Mifflin). Her work appeared in Best New American Voices 2003 (Harvest Books) and Best American Essays 2003 (Houghton Mifflin). She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.

SUSAN RAE TANNENBAUM is a wedding photographer who recently started making lampwork glass beads for love and money. She lives in New York City.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.