ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

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

POE BALLANTINE does not need bifocals, he says, as he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose to read. He is the author of the true-crime book Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, due out in 2012, and the subject of the documentary Poe Ballantine, A Writer in America (copies of which can be purchased for $13.99, shipping included, from Al Saperstein, P.O. Box 111, Earleton, Florida, 32631). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

JOSEPH BATHANTI’s most recent book, a collection of poems, is Restoring Sacred Art. Named by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, he is professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and also writer-in-residence at the university’s Watauga Global Community. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

WES CHENEY is an avid mountain biker who lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

FLORIN ION FIRMITÃ 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 died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in 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’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

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 a retired teacher of English and photography who lives in Bloomington, Indiana. His poetry has been published in The Dos Passos Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, and The Sylvan Echo.

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

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is trying to simultaneously learn Finnish, Hungarian, and Japanese.

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’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.

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD’s essay in this issue is from his memoir, Something Is Wrong with Me, for which a publishing deal is in the works. In prison for robbing banks with a toy gun, he welcomes mail to break up the steady flow of irs complaints and magazine rejection letters. (Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box  CMC-6273, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409)