STEVE ALMOND’s most recent essay collection is titled Not that You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (Random House). He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and their daughter, Josephine, who recently started walking and shows no signs of ever stopping. 

ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

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.

AMY R. BOLES lives in Arlington, Virginia. Her photographs stem from childhood memories of growing up on a farm in Kansas, where four generations of her family have lived and worked the land.

BRUCE BOND’s most recent collections of poetry include Cinder (Etruscan Press) and The Throats of Narcissus (University of Arkansas Press). He lives in Denton, Texas, and is a professor of English at the University of North Texas and poetry editor for American Literary Review.

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.

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in his hometown of Charlton Heights, West Virginia.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT’s fourth novel, Happy Baby, is being co-published this month by MacAdam/Cage and McSweeney’s. He lives in San Francisco but is currently on the road following the Democratic primaries and working on a book about the 2004 election.

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.

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.

JAKE GASKINS teaches English and directs the writing center at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.

CLEMENS KALISCHER signed up for his first photography course in 1947 and has been taking pictures ever since. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he has run the Image Gallery for more than thirty years.

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.

MATT KOLLASCH lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He has traveled to Slovakia thirty-five times in the last ten years to photograph that country’s Roma (Gypsy) culture.

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

LAURA A. MUNSON’s writing has appeared in Big Sky Journal and Western Art and Architecture. She lives in Whitefish, Montana.

MATT ROBINSON manages Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and writes about local history.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

SYBIL SMITH has been published in Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, and the MacGuffin. She lives in Norwich, Vermont.

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

CHIP THOMAS is a photographer and family physician on the Navajo nation reservation in Shonto, Arizona.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.