Poet JOHN BARGOWSKI lives on a couple of acres of rich Jersey loam along the Delaware River, where he enjoys gardening and spending time with his family. He is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council of the Arts fellowship and the Theodore Roethke Prize.

BEN BOBLETT is a family physician who also surfs and takes photographs. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.

TANYA BOGGS is a photographer and MFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives in Colorado, where she likes to go climbing, hiking, and snowboarding.

CHRISTIAN BONANNO is a photographer living in Cary, North Carolina.

THOMAS BOYD is the pseudonym of a writer and divorced father of two who lives in San Francisco, California.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

MICHAEL CHITWOOD’s seventh collection of poems, Clamor, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2010. He teaches at the University of North Carolina and lives in Chapel Hill with his two children, who sigh whenever they see him trying to send a text message.

CARY CLIFFORD lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has exhibited her photographs most recently in New York, Pittsburgh, and Berlin.

AARON HEWITT is the son of an Indiana funeral director. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a freelance photographer.

JOHN HODGEN is the author of the poetry collection Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press). He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and is a visiting assistant professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

MARIE HUARD lives in Philadelphia. Her photograph in the February 2006 issue was taken with a pinhole camera on a day trip to New York City.

LYNNE JAMNECK is a photographer and writer from South Africa. She currently lives in New Zealand and is the editor and creator of Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation.

LARRY JANSS works in real estate and banking, but photography is his central avocation. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California, and studied photography with Ansel Adams, whom he occasionally assisted from 1967 to 1980.

GREG KING is a writer who lives with his family in the Salmon Mountains of northern California.

HEATHER KING’s latest book, PULSE: Heart of Jesus, A Conversion, is forthcoming from Viking. She is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and lives in Los Angeles.

HALLE MERRILL is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California.

KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE is the author of The Pine Island Paradox (Milkweed Editions), Riverwalking (Harcourt), and Holdfast (Lyons Press). She is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, where she directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

DOUG RHINEHART is a retired college administrator who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

MICHAEL ROCHE quit his corporate job after his father’s death and returned to doing the things he enjoys, namely taking black-and white photographs and teaching aikido to children. He lives in Fredericksburg, Texas.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

TED SEYMOUR is a photographer and film editor who teaches disadvantaged youth, writes songs, and hopes one day to design and build his own beachfront home. He lives in Oakland, California.

MARK SMITH-SOTO lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he serves as director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published two books of poetry, Our Lives Are Rivers (University Press of Florida) and Any Second Now (Main Street Rag Press).

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).

JENNIFER WARREN is a freelance photographer whose work has been published by the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Amnesty International. She lives in New York City and is proficient in Arabic, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

THERESA WILLIAMS can pick up pens and pencils with her toes, whistle out of the side of her mouth, and spell most words correctly most of the time. She is the author of a novel called The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage). She teaches literature and creative writing at Bowling Green State University and lives in Bradner, Ohio.

GENIE ZEIGER recently began singing international music in a chorus. Her book What Happened Was . . . : Writing Memoir and Personal Essay is forthcoming in 2009 from White Pine Press. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts.