TODD BOSS is working on a collection of poems about God’s off hours. His poem in the November 2002 issue is from that collection. He writes in an office near the cathedral in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His work is not divinely inspired, he says, but some of it is inspiringly divine.

ELLEN COLBERT (b.1921-d.2002) was a photographer who lived in Ithaca, New York.

HEATHER FOX is a photographer living in Reston, Virginia.

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.

CYNTHIA GREGORY lives and writes in northern California. Her short stories have appeared in the Ear, Santa Barbara Review, Briar Cliff Review, Red Rock Review, and the Writer’s Digest Year’s Best Fiction 2001. She recently completed a collection of short stories called Amen, Baby, and is at work on a novel set in the Napa Valley.

DAVID BRENDAN HOPES is the author of A Childhood in the Milky Way (Akron University Press), which was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His latest volume of poetry, A Dream of Adonis, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

ETHAN HUBBARD’s photos and writing in the August 2008 issue are from his latest book, Grandfather’s Gift: A Journey to the Heart of the World (Heron Dance Press). He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

DERRICK JENSEN’s most recent book is titled As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Crescent City, California.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

BRUCE MEISTERMAN is a photographer living in Germantown, Tennessee.

KEITH LEE MORRIS’s stories have been published in New England Review, Georgia Review, South Carolina Review, Puerto Del Sol, Quarterly West, and Manoa. His first novel, The Greyhound God, is forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press. A short-story collection, in which "Mr. Jordan’s Arrival" will appear, is scheduled for publication by the same press in 2004. Morris teaches creative writing and journalism at Clemson University in South Carolina.

DAVID ROMTVEDT’s most recent book of poems is Some Church (Milkweed Editions). He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he plays dance music of the Americas with his band, the Fireants.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

LINDA SWEET lives in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, and teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico in Los Alamos.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JERRY N. UELSMANN lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).

HIROSHI WATANABE made commercials for Japanese television for twenty years before he quit to devote himself full time to fine-art photography. He lives in West Hollywood, California.

RICHARD WHITTAKER is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California. He publishes an art magazine called works + conversations.

BUCKY WILCOX is a photographer living in Grass Valley, California.