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.

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.

JESSICA CARLIN is a photographer living in Bloomington, Indiana.

WILLIAM CARTER has been taking photographs for five decades. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

ELLEN GIAMPORTONE’s work was included in a book of photographs called Our Beautiful Children (PQ Blackwell). She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she works in an attic office making reservations for vacation rentals.

ROY GUMPEL is a photographer, cinematographer, and volunteer firefighter in High Falls, New York. His favorite assignment was filming Route 66 for a National Geographic television documentary.

DAVID JESSEE is a father, designer, and photographer living near Pittsboro, North Carolina.

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.

KATHLEEN LAKE lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a former member of the Maine State Poetry Slam Team. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Kalliope.

ANGELA LAM is a writer and fitness enthusiast living in Santa Rosa, California. Her essay in the March 2004 issue is part of an unpublished book-length memoir. She is currently working on a novel.

R.A. McBRIDE is working on a book of photographs and essays about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TED MILLER JR. is a sports photographer living in Silverton, Oregon, with his wife and two boys.

TODD JAMES PIERCE began teaching at South Carolina’s Clemson University in the fall. He is the author of two novels, The Sky Like Tamara Blue (Quartet Books) and The Australia Stories (MacAdam/ Cage). His work has appeared most recently in the Georgia Review, the Indiana Review, and North American Review.

GYPSY RAY is a photographer who lives outside of Kilkenny City, Ireland. She teaches part time at Ormonde College.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE lives in Powell, Wyoming, and teaches photography at Northwest College.

DIANA SCHMITT lives with her partner in western North Carolina, where she directs a dorm on the campus of Warren Wilson College. She also raises two daughters, writes for a small-town newspaper, and bakes lots of cookies.

PAMELA SCHOENEWALDT teaches fiction writing at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her work has been published in Crescent Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Literary Lunch. She is now writing her first novel, set in twelfth-century Italy.

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

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.

JAN STURMANN grew up in South Africa. Before becoming a photographer, he made his living as a left-handed tree planter, a vegetarian ranch hand, and a numerically challenged carpenter. He lives in Oakland, California.

CORVIN THOMAS lives in San Francisco. As a writer, he takes inspiration from the language of his two children: “I got stung by a pimple,” his two-year-old daughter says; “I smell bacon on the baby wind,” says his four-year-old son.

ESTHER VANDERPOT is a photographer who lives in San Diego, California.

ROCHELLE WELLS is a photographer who lives in Tacoma, Washington.

KATY WILLIAMS’s work has appeared in Phoebe, So to Speak, and the Portland Review. She lives in Virginia with her husband, Brian, and dog, Ivy. She is currently completing a novel titled Wonderful Girl.

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