ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

DONALD BROWN is a photographer living in Hilo, Hawaii.

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.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in 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 recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.

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’s fiction has appeared in the Quarterly and Blackbird. His dream is to live above a pizzeria so that he can fall asleep to the sound of hands slapping fat balls of dough. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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’s work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and the Washington Post. He lives in Orange, Virginia.

LINDA SMOGOR lives in Homer, Alaska, which is often referred to as the “End of the Road” but is also lovingly called the “Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea.”

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.

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 photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

ERIC WARGO is a science writer and editor with an interest in photography and film. He lives in Washington, DC.

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 was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.