ERIC ANDERSON lives in Elyria, Ohio. Because of his unfortunately successful job search, he now teaches at various institutes of higher learning and will not be able to bowl on Monday nights this fall. He’s hoping to get fired by the first of the year.

ROY ARENELLA’s work has been published in the New York Times and the Village Voice. He recently moved from New York City to the small farming community of Greenwich, New York.

POE BALLANTINE believes that singing, laughing, and memorizing beloved poems should take the place of antidepressants. He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

JOSEPH BATHANTI's collection of short stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize and will be published this fall by Eastern Washington University Press. He is a professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and lives in Boone, North Carolina.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights attorney who likes to take photographs close to home. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GENE BEYT is a photographer and physician who teaches at Tulane University and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER calls himself “a professional photographer hoping to become an amateur.” He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

WES CHENEY displays his photographs in his studio at d’Art Center in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

FLORIN ION FIRIMITA grew up in Romania. As a teenager he spent long hours writing in his journal, which he hid in a sack of salt to keep Communist apparatchiks from discovering it. He lives in Winchester, Connecticut.

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, New York.

LINDSAY FITZGERALD likes to stop and read the messages written in the sidewalk cement. She has new fiction in the anthology Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles, forthcoming in October 2005.

ROBERT E. HANNAN is a photographer who lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

ROGER HARMON lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but spends much of his time in Southeast Asia, where he takes photographs, trains Peace Corps volunteers, and leads educational tours for Westerners.

MICHELE A. HUBBS’s photographs have been published in Shots. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she consumes chocolate in criminal quantities.

ANN HUMPHREYS is a poet, manuscript reader for The Sun, and professional hula-hooper. She occasionally sings country music at small venues in and around Carrboro, North Carolina, where she lives with her beloved dog and equally beloved boyfriend.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

ILYA KAMINSKY came to the United States in 1993 from Odessa, in the former Soviet Union. He lives in California and is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press).

LI-YOUNG LEE’s most recent book of poetry, Book of My Nights (BOA Editions), won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award. He lives with his wife and two sons in Chicago.

GENE MONETTE is a photographer who lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

ADRIENNE MOUMIN lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has spent most of her life making photographs.

MATT NIGHSWANDER is a photographer who spent six years as an international photo editor at the Associated Press and ten years playing in a band you’ve never heard of. He lives in Chicago.

ROGER PFINGSTON is now retired after teaching photography and English to high-school students for thirty-one years. His photographs and poems having been widely published, he disproves the adage “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

RANDALL RICHARDS is a photographer and screenwriter who lives in Culver City, California.

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS teaches fiction writing in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program in Washington State. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JESSICA MAX STEIN writes poetry and grows tomatoes in Brooklyn, New York.

KATHERINE TOWLER is the author of the novels Snow Island and Evening Ferry (both MacAdam/Cage). She lives in New Hampshire.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JEFF WALT has worked as a bill collector, a pizza-delivery guy, a cowboy at Walt Disney World, and an English instructor. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Runes, Clackamas Literary Review, and the Comstock Review, and he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize three years in a row. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

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

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD is the father of three perfect sons. He has worked in radio, construction, and at a pineapple factory. While traveling with his band, the Saint James Catastrophe, he picked up the heroin-smoking habit, which led to prison. Correspondence can be sent to: Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box 8103, CMC East-6223, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409.