PEGGY SUE AMISON has been a photographer for more than twenty years. In 2000 she moved from California to County Cork, Ireland, where she directs the Sirius Arts Centre.

KENT ANNAN and his wife Shelly Satran, work for a grass-roots development organization in Haiti. He’s disappointed that the four-month avocado season in their area is coming to a close, but that means mango season is drawing closer.

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.

DOUG BEASLEY lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, in a small wooden house surrounded by trees, where he tends his Japanese gardens. He is a lover of late-night discussions and strong morning coffee.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

DOUG DORST lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, McSweeney's, the Atlantic Unbound, and ZYZZYVA. His first novel is forthcoming from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.

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.

JASON LANGER’s photos have appeared in American Photo, Life, and Vanity Fair, and his work is represented in the Sir Elton John permanent collection, the Sir Mick Jagger permanent collection, and Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

D. PATRICK MILLER writes regularly for the online journal Elephant and is the founder of Fearless Books and Fearless Literary Services. His latest book is Living with Miracles: A Common-Sense Guide to A Course in Miracles. He lives in Berkeley, California.

ANDREW POUNDSTONE lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Kortney. He recently started printing photographs in the bathroom of their apartment.

MARVIN W. SCHWARTZ is a photographer who lives in New York City. His work is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

VERNON SIGL is a photographer living in Hicksville, New York.

SARAH SILBERT lives and writes in Vermont. She teaches creative writing at Vermont Technical College.

D. JAMES SMITH is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry. His work has appeared in the Carolina Quarterly, New Virginia Review, and other journals. His first collection of poems, Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, was published in 1995 by Ahsahta. Fast Company (DK), a novel for young adults, appeared in 1999. He lives in central California, where he enjoys motorcycling; small, vicious dogs; and eating dinner.

RICHARD SMOLEY is the co-author, with Jay Kinney, of Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (Penguin) and the former editor of Gnosis magazine. He lives in Massachusetts and his work can be found online at www.faith.com.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

SUSIE STEELE traveled to Ireland in 2001 to photograph local holy sites and the offerings that people leave there. She lives in Northport, Alabama, and her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review and Primavera.

JERRY N. UELSMANN’s most recent book of photographs is The Mind’s Eye, and his work is in the permanent collections of art museums worldwide. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.