VANESSA ALBURY is currently studying photography in graduate school.

JOSEPH BATHANTI’s most recent book, a collection of poems, is Restoring Sacred Art. Named by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, he is professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and also writer-in-residence at the university’s Watauga Global Community. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

JAMIE BERGER moved from New York City to San Francisco in 1992 after finishing a master’s degree in poetry. He hasn’t written a poem since. His two monologues, Knowing the Questions and Regrets Only, had extended runs in San Francisco and New York. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeneys.net, and Negative Capability.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GLENN CALLAHAN is a photographer who lives in Johnson, Vermont.

WES CHENEY is an avid mountain biker who lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

LEIGH DAVIS is a photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, RES, and Mademoiselle.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in Art Forum and The New York Times and is represented in public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

DAVID HASSLER has published two books of poems and is the program and outreach director for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. He also conducts writing workshops in schools and senior centers. He lives in Kent, Ohio, with his wife and daughter.

ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

LISA J. HUBER is a photographer first and a museum curator second. She is proud to be a liberal living in the red state of Kentucky.

KATHLEEN LAKE lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a former member of the Maine State Poetry Slam Team. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Kalliope.

JASON LANGER’s photos have appeared in American Photo, Life, and Vanity Fair, and his work is represented in the Sir Elton John permanent collection, the Sir Mick Jagger permanent collection, and Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

R.A. McBRIDE is the author of Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres, for which she received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a founding member of Point Blank, an experimental photography group in San Francisco.

TED NORDHAUS is vice-president of Evans/McDonough, one of the country's leading opinion research firms, with offices in Washington, D.C., Oakland, California, and Seattle. He is also cofounder and director of Strategic Values Science Project, which uses corporate marketing research to promote progressive politics.

KIMBERLEY PITTMAN-SCHULZ’s first poetry book is Mosslight. She lives in Fieldbrook, California, with her wildlife-biologist husband and two cats and is the director of planned giving for Humboldt State University. She once hang glided off a cliff near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but remains leery of high curbs.

MARC POLONSKY lives in Camp Meeker, California, and cohosts a radio show on kows in Occidental called Commanders of the Airwaves.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER is executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and president of Lumina Strategies, a political consulting firm. He lives in El Cerrito, California.

JERRY N. UELSMANN’s most recent book of photographs is The Mind’s Eye, and his work is in the permanent collections of art museums worldwide. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

ANDREA J. WALKER is a freelance photographer who lives in Seattle with her fiance and a German shepherd named Duna. She used to live in Taos, New Mexico, and still misses green chile.

KIM J. YOUNG is a naturalist and biologist who recently received her master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Writing program. She lives in York County, Pennsylvania, on the farm she writes about in her essay in the February 2005 issue.