ERIC ANDERSON lives in Elyria, Ohio. Because of his unfortunately successful job search, he now teaches at various institutes of higher learning and will not be able to bowl on Monday nights this fall. He’s hoping to get fired by the first of the year.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

NORMAN FISCHER is founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation and former co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. His latest book of poetry is I Was Blown Back (Singing Horse Press). He lives in Muir Beach, California.

RYAN FOX photographs weddings using top-of-the-line equipment, but is most proud of the pictures he takes with a plastic camera he bought for twenty-three dollars. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

BILL FRANSON is a professional photographer who lives in Byfield, Washington. He’s currently working on a photographic series about adopting a son from St. Petersburg, Russia, and how the process has transformed his family.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, Witness, and Artforum. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

HILLARY GRACE is the pseudonym of a writer who has contributed many times to The Sun.

ELLI GURFINKEL is a photojournalist and wedding photographer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After teaching writing and literature for thirty-five years, poet TOM HANSEN has retired to ten acres of ponderosa-covered, deer-inhabited, turkey-scavenged land outside Custer City, South Dakota. His work has appeared in Art Times, Cottonwood, and the Explicator.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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.

RICHARD LEHNERT lives in northern New Mexico with his wife. His poems are forthcoming in Chautauqua Literary Journal and Zone 3. His book of poems, A Short History of the Usual, was published by Backwaters Press in 2003.

NATHAN ALLING LONG lives and teaches in Richmond, Virginia, and is a frequent contributor to Readers Write. For five years he was the fiction editor of RFD, a journal about rural gay life, and he’s currently working on a novel about a child of indeterminate gender growing up in small-town America.

CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ owns a window-cleaning company in Clintondale, New York. His photographs have been published in the journals American Photo and Shots and the book NYC: Life Going On (Syracuse University Press).

TOBY MALOY is a photographer who lives in Carnation, Washington.

ROBYN McDANIELS is a photographer living in Audubon, Minnesota.

GYPSY RAY is a photographer who lives outside of Kilkenny City, Ireland. She teaches part time at Ormonde College.

EDWIN ROMOND was a high-school English teacher for thirty-two years and is now a visiting author in Pennsylvania and New Jersey schools. His latest book of poems is Dream Teaching (Grayson Books). 

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CAROL SAMOUR’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review and Shots. She lives in Germantown, Maryland.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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

LAURA VAN ETTEN has worked at women’s shelters in New York, Arizona, and Colorado. She currently lives in Fort Collins and teaches at Colorado State University.