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 most recent book is Restoring Sacred Art (Star Cloud Press). In 1976 he moved to North Carolina as a vista volunteer to work in prisons, and since then he has taught creative-writing workshops for inmates across the state. His novel Coventry (Novello Festival Press) is set in a fictional North Carolina prison. He lives in Boone, North Carolina, and teaches at Appalachian State University.

RITA BERNSTEIN has a long-distance-running habit and has missed only five days in thirty-five years. She carries a toy camera on her daily runs. She lives with her husband 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’s debut novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Harper Collins) is available in bookstores now. You can contact her at www.myspace.com/jessicaanyablau.

RACHEL J. ELLIOTT lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband and daughter and works at The Sun. She spends her spare time playing cornhole so that she’ll be ready to compete in the 2024 Olympic games.

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 was born in Bavaria and has been taking photographs for sixty years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery and maintains Image Photos, an archive of more than a half-million pictures.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, 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’s work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and the Washington Post. He lives in Orange, Virginia.

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 a retired photography teacher who lives in Bakersfield, California.