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 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.

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 is the author of Salt Pork & Apple Pie (RavenMark), a collection of essays and photographs celebrating a disappearing generation of farmers, loggers, and others who live close to the land. 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 lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he has spent much of the past year building his house — digging the foundation, framing, insulating, hanging drywall, and now, finally, painting. His most recent book of poems is titled Some Church (Milkweed Editions).

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’s most recent book of photographs is The Mind’s Eye, and his work is in the permanent collections of art museums worldwide. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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.