VELVY APPLETON is a photographer who plays guitar in a Brazilian dance band. He lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, California.

HEATHER BRITTAIN BERGSTROM’s poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Clackamas Literary Review. She lives in Yuba City, California, and has a short story forthcoming in the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books).

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

BRIGITTE CARNOCHAN is the author of Bella Figura (Modernbook Editions). She lives in Portola Valley, California, where she loves to photograph her dog, Muggs, doing just about anything for a dog biscuit.

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

MICHAEL CHITWOOD is the author of four books of poetry and has a collection of essays and stories titled Condition Reports forthcoming from Tryon Publishing. The wisteria that he transplanted from his grandmother’s yard has bloomed only once since he’s had it — in the spring following her death five years ago. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

SUSI EGGENBERGER was a registered nurse for twenty-two years before becoming a photographer. She lives in Arundel, Maine.

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.

PATRICIA GRIFFIN is an amateur photographer who lives in Ashland, Oregon.

JEFFREY HERSCH is a photographer who has unloaded cod from fishing boats and mucked out horse stalls. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

JOHN HODGEN is the author of the poetry collection Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press). He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and is a visiting assistant professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

JOEL JENSEN holds to his belief that in the not-so-distant future, phone calls and handwritten letters will eliminate e-mail, and film will preside over digital images. He lives and takes photographs in Summerland, California.

GREG KING is a writer who lives with his family in the Salmon Mountains of northern California.

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

CAROL H. MACLEOD is a photographer, psychiatric nurse, educator, and grandmother of four. She lives in Maine, where she says there is “an extremely strong and supportive arts community.”

TIM MELLEY lives in Cincinnati and teaches American literature at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (Cornell University Press), and his stories have appeared in the Threepenny Review, Columbia, the Mississippi Review, and Epoch. He has also read his work from The Sun on Public Radio International’s This American Life.

JAIME O’NEILL writes regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee. He hopes to continue writing and teaching for a long time, though he is significantly more than half finished. He lives in Magalia, California.

JOHN ROSENTHAL lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His book of photographs is called Regarding Manhattan (Safe Harbor Books).

ERROL SAWYER is an American photographer living in Amsterdam, Holland. His work has appeared in Vogue, New York magazine, and Working Woman.

JEFFREY SAWYER is in the Pacific Northwest. The excerpts that appear in the June 2004 issue are from an unpublished book he has written.

SHARON SELIGMAN lives in Spicewood, Texas, with three cats, three dogs, a cow, and a macaw. After a confrontation with breast cancer, she gave up her day job to pursue her passion for photography. Her photo essay about breast cancer can be viewed on her website.

LAURIE SERMOS recently returned home to her dachshund, Hugo, after teaching photography for three months in Tuscany, Italy. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

GENIE ZEIGER recently began singing international music in a chorus. Her book What Happened Was . . . : Writing Memoir and Personal Essay is forthcoming in 2009 from White Pine Press. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts.