VANESSA ALBURY is currently studying photography in graduate school.

JOSEPH BATHANTI's collection of short stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize and will be published this fall by Eastern Washington University Press. He is a professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and 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 former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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

WES CHENEY displays his photographs in his studio at d’Art Center in downtown 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 is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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 work has appeared in LensWork and Photographer’s Forum. He thinks of his pictures as visual haikus and is working on a book of original haiku poems and photographs. 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 book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

R.A. McBRIDE is working on a book of photographs and essays about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in New York City.

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 lives with her wildlife-biologist husband and her cat on the East Fork of the Lewis River in Battle Ground, Washington. When not writing poems or hiking in the woods, she raises and manages charitable funds for Clark College.

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 lives in Powell, Wyoming, and teaches photography at Northwest College.

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 lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).

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.