WALTER O. BEATON spent twenty-two years in banking before walking away to become an artist. He lives in New York City.

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

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 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.

TONY HOAGLAND’s newest book of poetry is Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. He recently taught at the 2011 Conference on the Great Mother and New Father, where he was overstimulated by the company of talented artists and musicians and found serious cultural debate of the kind he’d once hoped to find within the walls of American universities. He lives in Houston, Texas.

LANCE JONES lives in Ira, Vermont, and has had his work published in B&W and Photo Life. He says he’s never made more money from his photography than he’s spent on it, so he must do it for love.

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’s photos have been published in SHOTS and the Photo Review. She works at an animal hospital and 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 teaches photography at Springfield Technical Community College and 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 teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

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 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.

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.

JENNY WARBURG’s photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Time. She lives 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 was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.