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 retired from his job as a pipe fitter and welder, then returned to work, and now he thinks almost every day about retiring again. He lives in Highland, Indiana.

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 lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the author of Kutuuka (Yellow Bird Press), a collection of photographs and drawings of and by the children at Saint Mary Kevin Orphanage in Uganda. Proceeds from sales of the book go to the orphanage through the Change the Truth Fund.

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 lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

AL NEIPRIS is writing a book on golf. “It’s about my struggle,” he says, “to become a semirespectable golfer despite an almost complete lack of athletic ability and a temperament utterly unsuited to the game.” He lives in Venice, Florida.

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 quit his corporate job after his father’s death and returned to doing the things he enjoys, namely taking black-and white photographs and teaching aikido to children. 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 is a photographer living 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 lives in Bakersfield, California.