ERIC ANDERSON lives in Elyria, Ohio. Because of his unfortunately successful job search, he now teaches at various institutes of higher learning and will not be able to bowl on Monday nights this fall. He’s hoping to get fired by the first of the year.

KENT BEHRENS is a photographer who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His work is currently being exhibited at Omaha’s Botanical Center.

BRIAN BUCKBEE divides his time between Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Missoula, Montana. His short story in this issue is from a book he is completing titled Dear Dipshit: Letters to My Dumb, Future Self. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Mid-American Review, and Shenandoah.

DOUG CRANDELL’s novel Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed will be published later this year by Virgin Books. He lives in Douglasville, Georgia, with his family, thirty chickens, twenty cats, thirteen ducks, six dogs, and two sheep.

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

LONNIE HULL DUPONT lives in rural Michigan, where she works as a book editor and writer. She is the author of The Haiku Box (Tuttle Publishing) as well as five poetry chapbooks from small San Francisco presses.

SARA GOLDENTHAL is a photographer who currently makes her living as an artist’s model in Portland, Maine. She also sings with a jazz trio and is working on a book of cat drawings.

MAURY GORTEMILLER is a writer and freelance photographer living in Greenville, South Carolina.

DUNCAN GREEN first discovered his love of photography at YMCA camp when he was eleven. He lives in Olympia, Washington, and is staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

HEATHER KING’s latest book, PULSE: Heart of Jesus, A Conversion, is forthcoming from Viking. She is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and lives in Los Angeles.

CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ owns a window-cleaning company in Clintondale, New York. His photographs have been published in the journals American Photo and Shots and the book NYC: Life Going On (Syracuse University Press).

PAT MACENULTY is the author of four books, all published by Serpent’s Tail Press. Her latest novel, From May to December, is based on her experiences running a drama workshop at a women’s prison. She is currently collecting essays for an anthology on parental caretaking.

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.

LINDA McCULLOUGH MOORE lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she’s toying with the idea of founding an institute for Christian studies. “Either that,” she says, “or cleaning out my refrigerator.”

LINK NICOLL photographs mostly people — some famous, some not. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

DION OGUST lives in Woodstock, New York, and is a staff photographer for the Woodstock Times. Her portraits of writers and musicians have appeared on book and CD covers.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

THERESA WILLIAMS can pick up pens and pencils with her toes, whistle out of the side of her mouth, and spell most words correctly most of the time. She is the author of a novel called The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage). She teaches literature and creative writing at Bowling Green State University and lives in Bradner, Ohio.

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

BILL WITT is a photographer who has also been a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, an assembler of tractor transmissions, and an Iowa state legislator. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

JACKIE WLODARCZAK is a photographer and teacher living in New York City.