ANTLER is the former poet laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and author of Exclamation Points Ad Infinitum! (Centennial Press). His poems have been included in the anthologies Poets against the War (Nation Books) and Poetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press). He lives in Milwaukee.

ROBERT P. COOKE is finally retired and lives with his wife in Highland, Indiana. He’s been writing poems and sending them to friends instead of sending them out for publication.

PETER J. CROWLEY lives in Norwich, Connecticut.

D'ARCY FALLON is a former journalist who teaches English composition and creative writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Her essay in this issue is from her memoir So Late, So Soon, which is due out in September 2003 from Hawthorne Books.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN’s photography books include Convergence, Among the Ashes, and Kutuuka. She has been taking photographs since she was three, when she took pictures of her stuffed bunny. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

SCOTT HESS is a commercial and fine-art photographer living in Sonoma County, California. He is currently working on a series of images taken in cathedrals and churches.

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.

G. ALAN MYERS likes to cook up a mean spaghetti Bolognese when he’s not working on new portraits. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

AL NEIPRIS lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and three dogs. His hobbies include playing piano and finding innovative ways to injure himself while biking, recent examples of which are getting his shoelaces caught in the spokes (long story), and crashing into a tree.

MICHAEL POLLAN is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include The Botany of Desire (Random House), A Place of My Own (Delta), and Second Nature (Grove Press). He lives in Berkeley, California.

MICHAEL ROCHE’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Colorado, Texas, Montana, and New York. He lives in Fredericksburg, Texas.

MICHAEL SHILLING lives in Seattle, Washington, where he is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. His fiction has appeared in Bridge and Night Rally.

MICHAEL SHORB is a poet, children's story writer, and novelist who lives in San Francisco. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Michigan Quarterly, the Nation, and the Shakespeare Newsletter, and his children's stories have been recorded by Shoofly. He has worked for more than ten years in the database-production department of a major information-services provider.

THOMAS TULIS  lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

JOSEPH WHEELER is a photographer from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He specializes in black-and-white portraits but loves to document anything old, decayed, and forgotten.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.