JOHN BARGOWSKI lives in the rural northwestern corner of New Jersey, where eagles sometimes roost in the trees. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His work has been published in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares.

ELLEN BASS’s poetry books include The Human Line and Mules of Love. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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 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.

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.

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.

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 loves writing poems but often thinks he’d rather spend the rest of his life listening to the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. He prays that, within his lifetime, the missing pages of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 will turn up. He and his wife recently moved to Ashland, Oregon.

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.

PATRICIA D. RICHARDS’s latest book of photographs is Incredible Eyes (TCB Publishers). She is the workshop director for European Photo Workshops Inc. and lives 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 and filmmaker from Austin, Texas.

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 photographs small-town high-school football, and his work has been published in Harper’s and Shots. He teaches graphic arts at Northwest College and lives in Powell, Wyoming.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

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 O: The Oprah Magazine, Orion, and Parenting. She lives in Putney, Vermont.

LISA WILTSE lives in New South Wales, Australia.

GENIE ZEIGER was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.