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.

BOB BAYLES is a photographer who lives in Van Nuys, California. He likes to incorporate quotes from movies in conversation, which leads his family to playfully accuse him of being unoriginal. “Either that,” he says, “or they actually believe ‘I’m very shallow and empty, and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say’ (Annie Hall).”

WALTER O. BEATON spent twenty-two years in banking before walking away to become an artist. He lives in New York City.

McCABE COOLIDGE is a book reviewer, poet, and essayist whose work has appeared in Sail Magazine, the San Francisco Bay Crossing, Dairy Goat Journal, and the New Orleans Review. He once lived on a sailboat in San Francisco Bay but now lives with his sweetheart, Karen, in Greenville, North Carolina, where he makes pottery and skips off to the coast whenever he can to sail, clam, and write.

SARA FERGUSON has lived and taken photographs in the American West and Australia. She currently lives in her hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

NOËLLE GABERMAN lives in Occidental, California. When she was young, she thought her father was in Kool & the Gang because his band covered their song “Celebration.”

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

GILLIAN KENDALL is the editor of Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing. She recently sold her house in Australia and is traveling in the Balkans and beyond, seeking work, a life-changing haircut, and a home.

LYN LIFSHIN’s books of poetry include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (both Texas Review Press), and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press). She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

MICHAEL  LIMBERT has self-published two books of photographs, American Tour and state fair, both available from Blurb.com. He lives in Royal Oak, Michigan.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

FAWN POTASH is a photographer, educator, curator, and volunteer firefighter living in Catskill, New York.

MIRIAM ROMAIS is the executive director and editor for En Foco, a nonprofit that supports photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. She is also an avid motorcyclist and lives in New York City.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MICHAEL SCHULTZ is a photographer living in Kernersville, North Carolina.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

DEBBIE URBANSKI holds a day job at Boxcar Press, a letterpress shop and fine press based in central New York State. She reviews hair salons for short-haired women at her website, and also writes poetry and fiction.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

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.