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 Popular Photography, the New York Times, 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 wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in 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 janitor, plumber, auto mechanic, and cat-scan technologist and has also taken photographs for more than thirty-five years. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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.”

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

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

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.

MATT KOLLASCH is a photographer living in Warsaw, Poland.

JASON LANGER’s photos have appeared in American Photo, Life, and Vanity Fair, and his work is represented in the Sir Elton John permanent collection, the Sir Mick Jagger permanent collection, and Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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 is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

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

CHIP THOMAS works as an Indian Health Service physician at a remote clinic on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. In 1993 he earned a Guinness World Record with two others for cycling twelve thousand miles from the northernmost point in Africa to the southernmost point in nine and a half months.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.