ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

ALAN BAILEY is a photographer and writer who lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

KRISTA BREMER is a writer, a knitter, and an associate publisher at The Sun. In the mornings, after dropping her kids off at school, she rolls up the car windows and indulges her guilty pleasure: sexist, raunchy rap music with a thundering bass line. Her essays have appeared in Utne Reader and Brain, Child.

KURT BROWN lives in New York and teaches part time at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of five poetry chapbooks and four full-length collections, including Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books), Fables from the Ark (Custom Words), and Future Ship (Story Line Press). He is also the editor of the anthologies Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars (Milkweed Editions) and Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (Milkweed Editions).

JON CAPUTO is a documentary and travel photographer. While living in Seattle, he worked for Real Change, a newspaper focusing on issues of poverty and homelessness. He now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

BRIAN FERGUSON is a staff photographer for the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia.

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.

CHAR MARIE FLOOD’s photographs have been published on greeting cards as well as in Kalliope and Shots. She lives in Chicago.

JIM GUINNESS lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he teaches high-school math and performs music for contra dances. In his spare time he ponders the future of humanity and wonders how to make quadratic equations fun for fourteen-year-olds.

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.

MELANIE LITCHFIELD lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and studied photography at Randolph Community College in Asheboro.

ALISON LUTERMAN blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

LAURA A. MUNSON’s writing has appeared in Big Sky Journal and Western Art and Architecture. She lives in Whitefish, Montana.

MICHELLE ORANGE is a Toronto writer and ex-TV producer. She currently lives in New York City and is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Salon.com, and her radio work has been broadcast on the CBC and the BBC. She loves her dad, who recently completed a jigsaw puzzle depicting Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.

ROBERT K. PAXSON is an amateur photographer living in St. Joseph, Michigan. He is seeking a publisher for a book of photographs.

KELLY POVO lives in a cabin in Lakeville, Minnesota. When she was seven years old, she saved up five hundred Bazooka bubble-gum wrappers and sent away for a free camera. She’s been taking photographs ever since.

DOUG RHINEHART is an adjunct photo instructor at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen.

MITHRAN SOMASUNDRUM was born in Sri Lanka but grew up in London, England. He currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand, where he works in a university electrochemistry lab. His short stories have recently appeared in Inkwell, Natural Bridge, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

COLE THOMPSON manages private vocational colleges and lives on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado. His work has been published in Popular Photography, Photographer’s Forum, and B&W.

NOLAN WELLS is a photographer who lives in Chicago.

AMY WILSON volunteered in Malawi, Africa, for the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance. She lives in Oakland, California, and is embarking on a film project about the impact of global warming on indigenous communities in the Arctic.

HARRY WILSON is retired after teaching photography at Bakersfield College for thirty-four years. He lives in Bakersfield, California.