JON AMBURG is a photographer and painter who lives and works in Boston.

KAREN S. BARD is a writer and photographer living in Pomfret Center, Connecticut.

NICOLE BLAISDELL is a photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SARAH BLODGETT is a commercial and fine-art photographer who lives in Ancram, New York. Her work has appeared in Fine Gardening, Martha Stewart Living, and the Knot.

VAL BRINKERHOFF lives with his family in Elk Ridge, Utah, and teaches photography at Brigham Young University, in nearby Provo.

Poems from DAVID BUDBILL’s latest book, Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse, are frequently featured on Garrison Keillor’s National Public Radio program The Writer’s Almanac. Budbill lives in the mountains of northern Vermont and edits the Judevine Mountain Emailite, an online magazine.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, where she is relishing the brief break between spring’s black flies and summer’s mosquitoes. Her work has appeared in Sierra and Psychotherapy Networker, and she teaches writing both in person and online.

MARSHALL CLARKE’s photographs have appeared in Photographer’s Forum and the Photo Review. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

STEVE DONOSO organizes events that point towards our awakening awareness. He lives in mid-coast Maine and also directs the International Film Festival of the Spirit.

BILL EMORY has been a dishwasher, janitor, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, and CAT-scan technologist. He has also been a photographer for thirty-five years. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ROBERT HECHT’s work has appeared in LensWork and Photographer’s Forum. He thinks of his pictures as visual haikus and is working on a book of original haiku poems and photographs. He lives in San Rafael, California.

JEFFREY HERSCH is a photographer who has unloaded cod from fishing boats and mucked out horse stalls. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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.

DAN KOECK is a professional photographer living in Fargo, North Dakota. His photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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

Photographer RUSS MCCLINTOCK lives and works in Chicago.

LORENZO W. MILAM is the author of Sex & Broadcasting (Mho & Mho Works) and a contributing editor of RALPH: The Review of the Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities. He lives in San Diego, California.

JAIME O’NEILL writes regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee. He hopes to continue writing and teaching for a long time, though he is significantly more than half finished. He lives in Magalia, California.

SUSAN PARKER’s memoir Tumbling After (Crown) has been optioned for film rights by HBO. She teaches writing classes in the Bay Area.

JAMIE PASSARO lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband, Bob, and their two sweet mutts. She enjoys writing about her friends, family members, and neighbors but is considering switching to fiction to give them a break.

LESLIE PIETRZYK lives in Virginia and is the author of two novels: A Year and a Day (William Morrow/HarperCollins) and Pears on a Willow Tree (HarperPerennial).

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

GORDON STETTINIUS is an artist, teacher, and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. His work has been exhibited in New York City, the Netherlands, and Seattle, Washington.

SARAH PEMBERTON STRONG is the author of the novel Burning the Sea (Alyson). She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she is at work on her second novel, The Fainting Room.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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