WALTER O. BEATON lives in New York City and has taken many photographs of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

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

ALISON CLEMENT is the author of the novels Pretty Is as Pretty Does (MacAdam/Cage) and Twenty Questions (Atria). She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her partner, an old cat, and a faithful pit bull.

MARY CORNELIUS is a photographer who lives in Canton, South Dakota.

REBECCA DREISINGER is a writer and counselor in New York City whose work has appeared in the New York Jewish Week and the Jewish Sentinel. She is currently completing a memoir, Olive Girl, about becoming an Israeli citizen.

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.

TONY HOAGLAND is the author of several books of poetry, including Donkey Gospel (Graywolf Press) and Sweet Ruin (University of Wisconsin Press). He lives in Texas and teaches at the University of Houston.

LANCE JONES is a photographer living in Somerville, Massachusetts.

DAN KOECK is a professional photographer living in Fargo, North Dakota. His photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

HALLE MERRILL is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California.

WENDY MORTON has been an insurance investigator for twenty years and a poet for many more. She has two books of poetry, Private Eye and Undercover, both published by Ekstasis Editions. She lives on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

SONDRA PERON is a photographer who prefers using vintage cameras, especially a Brownie Hawkeye from the 1940s. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

EMILY RINKEMA is a high-school English teacher who lives in Westford, Vermont, with her husband and her dog.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

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

When BARBI SCHULICK was a child, her father taught her his favorite poem: “If,” by Rudyard Kipling. She now lives and writes on Kipling Road in Brattleboro, Vermont, a stone’s throw from where Kipling spun his tales. Her work has appeared in Yoga Journal and Spirituality and Health, and on NPR affiliate WFCR.

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).

STARHAWK is a global-justice activist and the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Harper SanFrancisco). Her latest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (Harper SanFrancisco).

VIRGIL SUAREZ lives in Tallahassee, Florida. His book of poems 90 Miles was just published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. “I think it is my swan song,” he writes. “After this, I am disappearing into the great horizon on my brand-new Harley.”

RAMIN TALAIE is a journalist and photographer who was born in Iran and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TOM THOMPSON is a photographer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

JENNIFER WARBURG is a photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

ROCHELLE WELLS is a photographer who lives in Tacoma, Washington.

GENIE ZEIGER has been busy giving readings from her two new books: Radio Waves (White Pine Press), a poetry collection; and Atta Girl! (Sherman Asher Publishing), a memoir. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts, with her husband, Bill.