ERIC ANDERSON lives with his family in Elyria, Ohio. He says, “The pronunciation of ‘Elyria’ is a cross between ‘delirium’ and ‘malaria,’ which is a pretty fitting description of August in Ohio.”

ROY ARENELLA lives in New York City, where he worked in social services for thirty years. His photography has been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice.

POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

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 lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. 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 lives in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER plays the clarinet and chairs the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. His new book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, will be published by Steidl in 2010. 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 is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who traces his interest in art to his father’s photo lab in Romania, where at the age of six he was entrusted with mixing dangerous chemicals and printing photographs. When not sunbathing in southern France, he battles snowstorms 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 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 was born in Lithuania, studied film in Russia, and worked for eight years at Moscow Network Television. Two books of his photographs have been published in Lithuania. He lives 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 taught English and photography for thirty years. One of his worst habits is thinking too much about the future, earning him the nickname “the great anticipator.” He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, where the winter rains have taught him to swallow antidepressants. He is the author of Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer (Invisible Cities Press).

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 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.