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.

DONALD BROWN is a photographer living in Hilo, Hawaii.

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.

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

LEAF CERVELLI is a nomadic photographer, musician, carpenter, self-styled food-gatherer, and environmental activist who currently lives on the West Coast.

MARSHALL CLARKE’s photographs have appeared in Photographer’s Forum and the Photo Review. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, New York.

SUSIE FORRESTER's photographs have been published in the Photo Review and Hope magazine. She lives in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

REBECCA T. GODWIN is the author of the novels Private Parts (Longstreet Press) and Keeper of the House (St. Martin’s Press). Her fiction has appeared in Paris Review, Crescent Review, South Carolina Review , Carve, Epoch, and elsewhere. She lives in Eagle Bridge, New York, and teaches at Bennington College.

KEVIN GRAY is a photographer living in Augusta, Maine.

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.

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

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.

MANUEL MARTINEZ teaches composition and video-making at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, where he lives with his wife and son. His short stories have appeared in Blackbird, the Quarterly, and Bridge.

KAREN MORGAN is a photographer living in Richmond, Virginia.

A disabled Vietnam veteran and addict-in-recovery, DAN NEW calls himself an "artist-survivor." He lives in Albany, New York, and has been a photographer for more than twenty-five years.

RICHARD ROBINSON lives near Charlottesville, Virginia, and is an adjunct professor of photography at Randolph-Macon Women’s College. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and Time.

LINDA SMOGOR is a photographer living in Eugene, Oregon.

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).

CLAUDE ANSHIN THOMAS went to Vietnam at the age of eighteen and came home a decorated combat veteran. Today he is a monk in the Soto Zen tradition and an active speaker and Zen teacher in the United States and Europe. He is also the founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes peace and nonviolence. He lives in Florida.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a punk-rock tomboy who is more surprised than anyone to find herself photographing weddings for a living. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

ERIC WARGO writes, "I am a recent PhD in anthropology, and therefore unemployed." He lives in Griffin, Georgia, and takes photographs with plastic toy cameras. His pictures of Scotland and the American South can be viewed online.

HIROSHI WATANABE made commercials for Japanese television for twenty years before he quit to devote himself full time to fine-art photography. He lives in West Hollywood, California.

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.