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

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

KRISTA BREMER works at The Sun and is writing a memoir. This summer her work will appear in MORE and O: The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and is currently in the market for a house that is cozy yet spacious, sunny yet private, and luxurious yet affordable. She plans to live there with her husband (stubborn yet forgiving), her kids (maddening yet irresistible), and her cat (aloof yet needy).

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 appeared 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 photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

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

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. 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 saved five hundred Bazooka bubble-gum wrappers and sent them away for her first camera when she was ten. She lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.

DOUG RHINEHART’s first book of photographs is Desert Adagio (People’s Press). He is a retired community-college administrator and photography instructor who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

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 is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

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’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.