PATRICIA ANDERSON’s books include All of Us: Americans Talk about the Meaning of Death (Dell). Her essay in the July 2004 issue is about her experiences as a founding member of ZBS/AIR, a national artist-in-residence program providing media production for artists from 1974 to 1983. She lives in West Shokan, New York.

DAVID BARSAMIAN founded and directs the award-winning radio program Alternative Radio. His latest book is a collection of conversations with Howard Zinn called Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics (Harper Perennial). He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

MARK CURRIE takes photographs and builds buildings in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

RONALD F. CURRIE JR.’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Swink, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Cincinnati Review. His fiction in the December 2005 issue is an excerpt from a novel-in-stories, for which he’s seeking an agent. He lives in Waterville, Maine.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN is a photographer whose work explores personal history, memory, and war. She lives in Utica, New York.

Photographer MARK DOLCE is an American raised in Saudi Arabia. He lived overseas until he was twenty and currently resides in Eaglerock, California.

SARA FERGUSON has lived and taken photographs in the American West and Australia. She currently lives in her hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

LAURA S. FRIEDLANDER is a full-time mother of three and part-time photographer, community educator, and doula (childbirth support specialist). She lives in Skokie, Illinois.

MICHAEL GALINSKY is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician living in Brooklyn, New York.

ANETTE B. HANSEN is a photographer, massage practitioner, and mother living in Madison, Wisconsin.

MICHELE HERMAN’s writing has been published in Another Chicago Magazine and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art as well as her local paper, the Villager. She teaches writing online through the Writers Studio in New York City, where she, her husband, and two sons live and use their bicycles as their primary mode of transportation.

KAREN KEATING is the director of Photoworks, Inc., a nonprofit photo-education program in Glen Echo, Maryland. She has traveled to Cuba four times and is working on a book of photographs of Cuban women.

BARBARA J. KLINE is a surrealist fine-art photographer who lives in the mountains of Idaho.

Photographer LEWIS KOCH still finds the world an amazing place. His photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, the Progressive, and Sing Out! He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON’s photographs have been published in Newsweek, Life, and the New York Times. She lives in Cobleskill, New York, where she grows peas, lettuce, and chives.

RICHARD NEWMAN's most recent poetry collection is Borrowed Towns (Word Press). He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spends his time editing River Styx magazine, playing basketball, and drinking Miller High Life at his neighborhood pub, the Cat's Meow.

MATTHEW PIERCE's photograph in the July 2004 issue was taken at the entrance to Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, England. He lives in Springfield, Missouri.

GERALD REILLY’s fiction has been published in the Gettysburg Review, the Virginia Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. His story in this issue won an O. Henry Award in 1999. He lives and teaches writing in northern New Jersey.

When last we heard from photographer JESSICA R. RIGNEY in 1996, she was living in Auburn, Illinois, and had just had her first child.

LEE ROSSI is the perfect company man. He has no hobbies or interests outside his job. He barely remembers his wife’s name, and indeed has forgotten the names of his two children. He believes that if no one notices him, maybe Death will overlook him too.  He is the author of two books of poetry: Ghost Diary (Terrapin Press) and Beyond Rescue (Bombshelter Press). He lives in Culver City, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

LINDA SMOGOR is a photographer living in Eugene, Oregon.

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

HOWARD ZINN is a historian, activist, and playwright best known for his book A People’s History of the United States (Perennial). He is the subject of a new documentary titled You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, which is also the title of his autobiography, from Beacon Press. He lives with his wife, Roslyn, in Auburndale, Massachusetts.