JOHN BARGOWSKI lives in the rural northwestern corner of New Jersey, where eagles sometimes roost in the trees. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His work has been published in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares.

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’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 is an ex-lawyer, an ex-drunk, a Catholic convert, and the author of three memoirs: Parched (the dark years), Redeemed (crawling toward the light), and Shirt of Flame. She blogs at www.shirtofflame.blogspot.com.

HALLE MERRILL’s photos have been published in SHOTS and the Photo Review. She works at an animal hospital and 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’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.

MICHAEL ROCHE’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Colorado, Texas, Montana, and New York. He lives in Fredericksburg, Texas.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

TED SEYMOUR lives in Fort Bragg, California, but often rents his home to vacationers and travels to other corners of the globe. He is happiest when he’s not tethered to tech­nology.

MARK SMITH-SOTO is the director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the longtime editor of International Poetry Review. His most recent book of poetry is Any Second Now, and he translated Fever Season: Selected Poetry of Ana Istarú.

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.

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’s novel The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage) was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She is addicted to bubbly drinks, watermelon, and cowboy boots and lives in northwest Ohio with her husband, two Boston terriers, and an assortment of cats.

GENIE ZEIGER was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.