JENNIFER BISBING lives in Chicago. Her current project, wicker women, is a celebration of the women who work and live in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. She is donating all of the proceeds to Connections for Abused Women and Their Children.

SARAH BLODGETT is a commercial and fine-art photographer who lives in Ancram, New York. Her work has appeared in Fine Gardening, Martha Stewart Living, and the Knot.

MELODY ERMACHILD CHAVIS is a long-time private eye who works for defendants in capital cases. She is the author of two books, Altars in the Street (Three Rivers Press) and Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan (St. Martin’s Press), and is at work on a third, a memoir about her career. She lives in Berkeley, California, and practices Buddhism at the Berkeley Zen Center.

ALISON CLEMENT is the author of the novels Pretty Is as Pretty Does (MacAdam/Cage) and Twenty Questions (Atria). She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her partner, an old cat, and a faithful pit bull.

ROBERT P. COOKE is finally retired and lives with his wife in Highland, Indiana. He’s been writing poems and sending them to friends instead of sending them out for publication.

DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.

CHARLES DERRY lives in Ohio, but his heart is in the California desert. He is working on a book-length memoir and a novel about Sicilian immigrants in Cleveland during World War II.

CHERYL GATLING lives in Syracuse, New York, and has worked the night shift at a hospital as a registered nurse for eighteen years. She is also a wife, mother, and graduate student.

LAUREN GOODSMITH is a photographer who works as a trainer and consultant on women’s health and development projects in Africa. She has published one book of photographs, The Children of Mauritania: Days in the Desert and by the River Shore (Carolrhoda Books). A native New Yorker, she now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her cat and her horse.

DANIEL J. HOFFMAN ongoing photography project In Protest is a study of marches and demonstrations. He lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.

ERIK HOFFNER is a renewable-energy activist who works for Orion magazine. He lives in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

MATT KOLLASCH is a photographer living in Warsaw, Poland.

PAT MacENULTY’s most recent book is Wait until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a roommate, a blind cat, and two electric pianos. She teaches writing at Johnson & Wales University, a school known for its culinary college, but she still can’t cook. She blogs on writing at www.transformativewriting.blogspot.com.

IGOR MALIJEVSKÝ is a photographer, poet, and short-story writer living in the Czech Republic.

GARY MATSON once appeared on television in New Orleans, Louisiana, dancing under the stars, wearing one orange and one yellow sneaker. He lives in Sunnyside, New York.

G. ALAN MYERS likes to cook up a mean spaghetti Bolognese when he’s not working on new portraits. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

VINCENT PEREZ lives in Randle, Washington, and is a challenge-course manager in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Every Thursday night he plays guitar with the boys, but his first artistic love is the pinhole camera.

FAWN POTASH is a photographer, educator, curator, and volunteer firefighter living in Catskill, New York.

DAVID RIECKS is a communications specialist in photography at the University of Illinois. His love of travel has taken him all over the world.

RICHARD ROBINSON’s work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and the Washington Post. He lives in Orange, Virginia.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JOSEPH SORRENTINO is a photographer and playwright who lives in Rochester, New York. 

JOHN TAIT is an assistant professor of fiction writing at the University of North Texas and editor of American Literary Review. A Canadian transplant living in Denton, Texas, he has come to enjoy barbecue and Shiner Bock beer as much as he does back bacon and Molson.

ELLEN WALLENSTEIN is an artist and tarot-card reader who divides her time between New York City and Sherman, Connecticut. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute in New York.

LISA WILTSE lives in New South Wales, Australia.