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 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.

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 is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Minneapolis, 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 working on a book of photographs and essays about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

SUSAN RAE is a photographer living in New York City.

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

JENN REIDEL is a photographer and writer who lives with her son, Robyn, 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 lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he serves as director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His translation of Ana Istarú’s selected poetry, Fever Season and Other Poems, is due out this fall from Unicorn Press.

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.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.