VANESSA ALBURY is currently studying photography in graduate school.

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

JENNIFER BISBING lives in Chicago. Her current project, wicker women, is a celebration of the women who work and live in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. She is donating all of the proceeds to Connections for Abused Women and Their Children.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

SANDY CARTER is coauthor of the book of photographs Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their Work (Firefly Books). She lives in Anacortes, Washington.

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 is the author of the poetry collection Spoken among the Trees and the nonfiction book Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing. He lives in northwest Ohio and teaches at Bluffton University, where a large group of turkey vultures gathers atop the main classroom building. His oldest son just completed a marathon, which revived his own interest in running, or at least plodding.

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’s photographs of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota were recently shown at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She lives in New York City.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. 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 is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

JERRY N. UELSMANN’s most recent book of photographs is The Mind’s Eye, and his work is in the permanent collections of art museums worldwide. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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 O: The Oprah Magazine, Orion, and Parenting. She lives in Putney, Vermont.

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’s first collection of stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones, received the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award from Snake Nation Press, and his second, Bring Everybody, was the inaugural winner of the Juniper Prize. Twice a recipient of nea fiction fellowships, he taught for many years in the writing program at the University of California, Riverside. He lives in Redlands, California, where he and his dog air their differences regarding garden management.