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, a collection of poems, is Restoring Sacred Art. Named by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, he is professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and also writer-in-residence at the university’s Watauga Global Community. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home 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 works as an editorial associate at The Sun. She moonlights slinging dough for her family-run business, Stone’s Throw Pizza, where she works with her husband, Seth, and her daughter, Ava, making artisan pizza in a traveling wood-fired oven.

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 is proud that, despite being “skinny as a rail,” he was state weightlifting champ in college. His photographs illustrate a book by Linda G. Niemann called Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (Indiana University Press). He lives in Ely, Nevada.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

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.

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’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Colorado, Texas, Montana, and New York. 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 is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

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’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.