Poet JOHN BARGOWSKI lives on a couple of acres of rich Jersey loam along the Delaware River, where he enjoys gardening and spending time with his family. He is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council of the Arts fellowship and the Theodore Roethke Prize.

ELLEN BASS’s fourth book of poems, The Human Line, was published in 2007 by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, and teaches writing retreats in some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

MARK BRAZAITIS is the author of An American Affair: Stories (Texas Review Press), which won the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Prize. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Morgantown, West Virginia, and prefers swimming, hiking, bike riding — just about any recreational activity — to golf.

ROBERT P. COOKE worked at British Petroleum for twenty-five years as a pipe fitter, welder, and trainer. He is now retired and stays home to cook, clean, and write poetry while his wife is at work. “I still get up at five in the morning as if I’m going to my former job,” he says. He lives in Highland, Indiana.

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

DOUG CRANDELL’s novel Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed will be published later this year by Virgin Books. He lives in Douglasville, Georgia, with his family, thirty chickens, twenty cats, thirteen ducks, six dogs, and two sheep.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of Among the Ashes and Convergence (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and has recently become an empty nester.

In addition to his photography, GARY M. HASKINS writes poetry, makes pottery, and practices sumi-e — Japanese ink painting. He lives in Hawthorne, Florida.

RICHARD LEHNERT lives in northern New Mexico with his wife. His poems are forthcoming in Chautauqua Literary Journal and Zone 3. His book of poems, A Short History of the Usual, was published by Backwaters Press in 2003.

PATRICIA RICHARDS takes photos of what she knows: her home, family, friends, and neighbors in Plano, Texas.

LINDA SOLE had a winning photograph in the MILK (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter, and Kinship) competition, sponsored by New Zealand publisher PQ Blackwell. She lives in Bellac, France.

DEBRA SUGERMAN is a photographer who lives in Austin, Texas. Her documentary film Dear Mr. President, about a group of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls on a road trip across America, has been shown at film festivals worldwide.

LIZA TAYLOR's fiction and essays have appeared in Sojourner, the Los Angeles Times, and the Santa Monica Review. Her novel The Drummer Was the First to Die (St. Martin's Press) continues to be required reading in epidemiology courses across the country. Her loves include horticulture, bluegrass guitar, fabric art, world travel, and lying on the couch with a good novel and a glass of something cold. She lives in Michigan with her hunk of a husband and their two radiant, unruly sons.

MORGAN TYREE, who calls himself a “walking typo,” lives in Powell, Wyoming, and has the letter R tattooed on his left foot and the letter L on his right. His work has been published in America West, Harper’s, and Shots.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a punk-rock tomboy who is more surprised than anyone to find herself photographing weddings for a living. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

HIROSHI WATANABE made commercials for Japanese television for twenty years before he quit to devote himself full time to fine-art photography. He lives in West Hollywood, 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.

LISA WILTSE is a freelance photojournalist who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

GENIE ZEIGER has been busy giving readings from her two new books: Radio Waves (White Pine Press), a poetry collection; and Atta Girl! (Sherman Asher Publishing), a memoir. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts, with her husband, Bill.