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 has been taking photographs for five decades. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MORGAN CAUFIELD is a photographer who lives in a yurt in Occidental, 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 prefers nondigital cameras: her trusty Canon AE-1, her Holga, and, most recently, a Mamiya C330. She is an editorial associate at The Sun and lives with her husband and six-year-old daughter in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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.

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 is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

JIM RALSTON has been commissioned to write an original play for a baseball conference in November at Frostburg State University in Maryland. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland.

DOUG RHINEHART is an adjunct photo instructor at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen.

MIRIAM ROMAIS is a photographer and managing director of En Foco, Inc., a Bronx nonprofit that exhibits work by photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. An avid motorcyclist, she 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 resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

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.