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 lives in New York City and has taken many photographs of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

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.

NOELLE GABERMAN is a photographer who lives in Occidental, California. She takes photographs of weddings to make money and of her son to capture his smile.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

GILLIAN KENDALL is the author of the memoir Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet (University of Wisconsin Press). She cultivates a native garden and an Aussie identity in Melbourne, Australia.

LYN LIFSHIN is the author of The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (Texas Review Press), Another Woman Who Looks like Me (Black Sparrow and Godine Press), and Barbaro, a poetry collection in progress. She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

MICHAEL V. LIMBERT is a photographer who plays with the band Fortune & Maltese. He lives in Royal Oak, Michigan.

ALISON LUTERMAN blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

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

MIRIAM ROMAIS is a photographer and managing director of En Foco, Inc., a Bronx nonprofit that exhibits work by photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. An avid motorcyclist, she 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 punk-rock tomboy who is more surprised than anyone to find herself photographing weddings for a living. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

HARRY WILSON is retired after teaching photography at Bakersfield College for thirty-four years. He lives in Bakersfield, California.