JUNE AVIGNONE lives in Paterson, New Jersey. She writes a column about socially conscious small businesses for Fortune’s website (www.fortune.com) and is the former editor of the Mill Street Forward, a political/arts quarterly she started after the last daily left Paterson. She is currently working on a novella, and a children's book titled The Secret Little Ones of Turtle Back Island. Her publications include Cianci Street: A Neighborhood in Transition (Italian Girls Press) and Traveling Small Distances (Chantry Press).

DOREEN BAINGANA is a Ugandan writer who has made the U.S. her home for more than ten years. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Potomac Review, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, African American Review, Glimmer Train, and the poetry anthology Beyond the Frontier.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

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

CORTNEY DAVIS’s most recent poetry collection, Leopold’s Maneuvers (University of Nebraska Press), won the 2003 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry. She is also the author of I Knew a Woman (Ballantine), a memoir about her work as a nurse practitioner, and co-editor of two anthologies of poetry and prose by nurses, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care (both University of Iowa Press).

RACHEL J. ELLIOTT works as an editorial associate at The Sun. She moonlights slinging dough for her family-run business, Stone’s Throw Pizza, where she works with her husband, Seth, and her daughter, Ava, making artisan pizza in a traveling wood-fired oven.

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.

LEIGH ANN HENION is a photographer from Boone, North Carolina. Her photo on the Contents page was taken in Quito, Ecuador, one block from the American Embassy.

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

JIM RALSTON was raised on a farm in upstate Michigan, when there was still a taste of wilderness in the north. He now lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and teaches at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. He recently returned from six weeks in Brazil, where he visited the healer John of God in Abadiania and was healed of his resentments. He says, “I arrived a skeptic and left a skeptic but was healed anyway.”

DOUG RHINEHART’s first book of photographs is Desert Adagio (People’s Press). He is a retired community-college administrator and photography instructor who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

MIRIAM ROMAIS is the executive director and editor for En Foco, a nonprofit that supports photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. She is also an avid motorcyclist and lives in New York City.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

ERROL SAWYER is an American photographer living in Amsterdam, Holland. His work has appeared in Vogue, New York magazine, and Working Woman.

KIRSTEN SMITH is a poet and screenwriter. Her poetry has appeared in such literary magazines as Witness, Shenandoah, and the Gettysburg Review. She has co-written the film comedies Legally Blonde and Ten Things I Hate About You. She lives with a nice young man and their dog Pearl in Los Angeles, where she moisturizes excessively, listens to rock-and-roll music, and eats too much cheese.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

STARHAWK is a global-justice activist and the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Harper SanFrancisco). Her latest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (Harper SanFrancisco).

APRIL THOMPSON is a San Francisco freelance writer who covers environmental and community issues, travel, and spirituality. Her work has appeared in Hope, Natural Home, Via, and other magazines.