RYAN ANDERSON is a photographer and archaeologist. He lives in Oceanside, California.

NICOLE BLAISDELL is a photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT lives in British Columbia, where she divides her time between solitude and her role as resident teacher for the Contemplative Society. She is a frequent contributor to Parabola magazine and a columnist for www.beliefnet.org.

ANDY CHARNAS lives and takes photographs in San Francisco.

THOMAS CLARK has been taking photographs for more than thirty years. He lives in Jamaica, New York.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT’s fourth novel, Happy Baby, is being co-published this month by MacAdam/Cage and McSweeney’s. He lives in San Francisco but is currently on the road following the Democratic primaries and working on a book about the 2004 election.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, Witness, and Artforum. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Photographer MATTHEW GRAY lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

TAMA HOCHBAUM lives with her husband and two children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she cooks, sings, and plays guitar.

DANIEL J. HOFFMAN ongoing photography project In Protest is a study of marches and demonstrations. He lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.

JON HUGHES is a self-taught photojournalist who began taking pictures more than twenty years ago at the age of forty. Although he has been on assignment around the world, he considers Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives, to be his main documentary project.

HOLLY ANN HYDE is a writer and freelance journalist living in New Hope, Pennsylvania. She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and is at work on both a novel, The Purified Heart, and a collection of short stories entitled The Power of Things Left Unsaid.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

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.

D. KILLIAN's work has appeared in Sojourners, Curve, Diva, the Lambda Book Report, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, and the Cleis Press anthology Dyke's Dream Home. She lives in New York City, where she is an organizer for the National Writers Union.

LYN LIFSHIN is the author of The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (Texas Review Press), Another Woman Who Looks like Me (Black Sparrow and Godine Press), and Barbaro, a poetry collection in progress. She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

IGOR MALIJEVSKY is a photographer, poet, and short-story writer living in the Czech Republic.

SUSAN LIRAKIS NICOLAY is a photographer who lives in Sandwich, New Hampshire. She loves to learn new things and tries to follow the example of her mother, who got her PhD when she was seventy-six.

When last we heard from photographer JESSICA R. RIGNEY in 1996, she was living in Auburn, Illinois, and had just had her first child.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

SAMANTHA SCHOECH spent portions of her childhood on a commune in northern California, at a meditation center in Vermont, and in a fishing village in Mexico. She now lives in San Francisco with her husband and their dog. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and the Gettysburg Review, and she is currently working on a novel about some of the characters in her story "Dances."

LINDA SMOGOR is a photographer living in Eugene, Oregon.

JAN STURMANN grew up in South Africa. Before becoming a photographer, he made his living as a left-handed tree planter, a vegetarian ranch hand, and a numerically challenged carpenter. He lives in Oakland, California.

LYNNE JAEGER WEINSTEIN’s photographs have been published in Orion, Parenting, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She lives in Putney, Vermont, where she likes to take pictures of people doing domestic chores.

Photographer JESSIE WILLIS yo-yos up and down the East Coast, but receives her rejection letters at a post-office box in New York City. Her favorite photographs of her daughters are stored in boxes, awaiting discovery by enlightened curators in the year 2050.

ROBLEY WILSON edited the North American Review for more than thirty years. Now retired, he lives with his wife, two stepdaughters, and seven cats in Orlando, Florida. His most recent story collection is The Book of Lost Fathers (Johns Hopkins).