ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

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

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. 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 Art Forum and The New York Times and is represented in public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

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 Brooklyn Park, 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 loves writing poems but often thinks he’d rather spend the rest of his life listening to the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. He prays that, within his lifetime, the missing pages of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 will turn up. He and his wife recently moved to Ashland, Oregon.

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 lives 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, Kalliope, and Shots. She lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

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.