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 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.

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 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.

JASON LANGER’s book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

Photographer JEAN-CLAUDE LEJEUNE lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

LOU LIPSITZ is a writer and therapist living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Now that the rains have returned after a long drought, his garden is growing ever larger and more complex, and he is foolishly egging it on.

D. PATRICK MILLER is an independent publisher and author whose latest book is News of a New Human Nature (Fearless Books). He resides with his wife, novelist Laurie Fox, in Berkeley, California. Their home was once inhabited by science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and literary tourists sometimes stop by to ask them if they know that a famous writer "used to live there."

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 comparative religions and 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 resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

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 lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).