STEVE ALMOND’s most recent essay collection is titled Not that You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (Random House). He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and their daughter, Josephine, who recently started walking and shows no signs of ever stopping. 

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.

JOSEPH BATHANTI's collection of short stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize and will be published this fall by Eastern Washington University Press. He is a professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and lives in Boone, North Carolina.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

PHILIP BERRIGAN was a Catholic priest and antiwar activist. He protested the Vietnam War, cofounded the Plowshares disarmament movement, and spent many years in prison for acts of civil disobedience. He and his wife, Elizabeth McAlister, founded Jonah House, an intentional community of activists in Baltimore, Maryland. He died there in December 2002.

JESSICA ANYA BLAU grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two daughters. She currently teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University.

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.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT’s fourth novel, Happy Baby, is being co-published this month by MacAdam/Cage and McSweeney’s. He lives in San Francisco but is currently on the road following the Democratic primaries and working on a book about the 2004 election.

JOEL JENSEN holds to his belief that in the not-so-distant future, phone calls and handwritten letters will eliminate e-mail, and film will preside over digital images. He lives and takes photographs in Summerland, California.

CLEMENS KALISCHER signed up for his first photography course in 1947 and has been taking pictures ever since. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he has run the Image Gallery for more than thirty years.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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.

LEE ANN McGUIRE is a photographer who lives in Dover, Ohio.

RICHARD ROBINSON lives near Charlottesville, Virginia, and is an adjunct professor of photography at Randolph-Macon Women’s College. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and Time.

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.

SARA SAFRANSKY is a writer and photographer from Holyoke, Massachusetts. She's spent most of the past year traveling through Europe, working on organic farms in exchange for room and board.

AARON SERAFINO is a photographer living in San Diego, California.

SYBIL SMITH has been published in Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, and the MacGuffin. She lives in Norwich, Vermont.

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.

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

HARRY WILSON is retired after teaching photography at Bakersfield College for thirty-four years. He lives in Bakersfield, California.