VANESSA ALBURY is currently studying photography in graduate school.

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

JENNIFER BISBING lives in Chicago and has been taking photographs for more than ten years.

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.

SANDY CARTER is a freelance photographer based in Victoria, British Columbia. She specializes in documentary and location photography.

DIANNE DUENZL loves to photograph foggy, dreamlike landscapes, which are rare where she lives, in the bright glare and drought of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

STEVE FELLNER is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Brockport. His essays have appeared in Northwest Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Quarterly West, among others. He lives in Brockport, New York.

JEFF GUNDY’s poetry manuscript Deerflies won the 2003 Editions Prize. His most recent prose book is Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (State University of New York Press). He teaches English at Bluffton College in Ohio.

LYNNE JAMNECK is a photographer and writer from South Africa. She currently lives in New Zealand and is the editor and creator of Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation.

JADINA LILIEN is a photographer and filmmaker living in New York City.

LOU LIPSITZ is a writer and therapist living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Now that the rains have returned after a long drought, his garden is growing ever larger and more complex, and he is foolishly egging it on.

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

STEPHEN J. LYONS’s latest book is A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America (Globe Pequot). He lives in Monticello, Illinois, and teaches in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. To help overcome his recently discovered fear of bridges, he has been driving over short spans that cross the Mississippi River. His goal is to drive across the I-57 bridge over the Ohio River — more than three-quarters of a mile long — with his eyes open.

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.

SPARROW resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

JERRY N. UELSMANN lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).

MICHAEL VENTURA is a writer who teaches high school in the San Fernando Valley.

LEAH VINLUAN has taken photographs in Nepal, India, Japan, Korea, and Morocco. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

LYNNE JAEGER WEINSTEIN’s photographs have been published in Orion, Parenting, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She lives in Putney, Vermont, where she likes to take pictures of people doing domestic chores.

Photographer ROBERT WELSH lives in San Francisco and enjoys playing the violin with his daughter Alia.

ELIZABETH WHITE lives in Jackson Heights, New York, where she takes photographs and works with America Speaks to increase citizens’ role in government.

MADELINE WILSON teaches photography at a private high school and is an avid sea kayaker who has completed two trips down the Hudson River. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

DWIGHT YATES lives in Redlands, California, and teaches in the writing program at the University of California at Riverside. His collection of stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones, is forthcoming from Snake Nation Press.