MORGAN CAUFIELD died in February 2010 at the age of fifty-four. She worked with developmentally disabled children in Sebastopol, California.

BARBARA EHRENREICH is a political essayist, social critic, and author or co-author of twelve books, including For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Anchor) and Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Henry Holt). She has written for Ms., Harper's, the Nation, the Progressive, the New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives and writes near Key West, Florida.

JEFFREY HERSCH is a photographer who has unloaded cod from fishing boats and mucked out horse stalls. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

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

FRANCES LEFKOWITZ was born poor in San Francisco, then attended an Ivy League college on scholarship and discovered the downside of upward mobility. Her journey is recounted in her memoir To Have Not  from MacAdam/Cage.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

LEE MARTIN is the author of four novels, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His third memoir, Such a Life, is due out this year. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches in the creative-writing program at Ohio State, where he forces students to listen to his corny jokes and admire his collection of windup toys.

LINK NICOLL photographs mostly people — some famous, some not. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

JOSIP NOVAKOVICH emigrated from Croatia at the age of twenty and currently teaches fiction writing at Penn State. Last year he was a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He has a new collection of essays, Plum Brandy: A Croatian Journey, coming out this month from White Wine Press.

MIKE O'MEALLY is an Australian photographer living in New York City, where he works for Skateboarder magazine. Despite being surrounded by Yanks for more than two years, he has kept his heavy Aussie accent.

JAMIE PASSARO lives with her husband and their two daughters in Eugene, Oregon. They recently dug up their front lawn to plant a vegetable garden, and she has grown to love a good kale smoothie with breakfast.

MIKE RICHES is a self-employed freelance photographer. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches photography at Portland Community College.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

TERESA STARR was born and raised in Kentucky and currently lives in New York, where she sings with her husband, Mark Alexander, in their music group the Echoes. She has published poetry in North American Review, Cider Press Review, Flint Hills Review, Poet Lore, and Ploughshares.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ANTHONY VARALLO's stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, and Mississippi Review. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship, he lives in Columbia, Missouri.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

Photographer ROBERT WELSH lives in San Francisco and enjoys playing the violin with his daughter Alia.

PETER WRIGHT lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he takes photographs, writes songs, and eats Dutch stroopwaffel.