PEGGY SUE AMISON has been a photographer for more than twenty years. In 2000 she moved from California to County Cork, Ireland, where she directs the Sirius Arts Centre.

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.

AL BARNA is a photographer living and working in San Francisco, California.

TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

CARY CLIFFORD lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has exhibited her photographs most recently in New York, Pittsburgh, and Berlin.

DUNCAN GREEN recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.

ROY GUMPEL is a photographer, cinematographer, and volunteer firefighter in High Falls, New York. His favorite assignment was filming Route 66 for a National Geographic television documentary.

JOEL JENSEN is proud that, despite being “skinny as a rail,” he was state weightlifting champ in college. His photographs illustrate a book by Linda G. Niemann called Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (Indiana University Press). He lives in Ely, Nevada.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

DIANE LEFER sometimes goes out in public dressed as a Guantánamo prisoner as a form of protest. Once, she found herself with her hands in the air and two guns pointed at her head after she was mistaken for a terrorist by the police. She is the author of the short-story collection California Transit (Sarabande Books) and collaborated with theater artist and therapist Hector Aristizábal on Nightwind, a play about his arrest and torture at the hands of the U.S.–supported military in Colombia. She lives in Los Angeles.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.

STEVE PATTERSON lives in Portland, Oregon, and his photographs are published regularly in the Oregonian, Willamette Week, and the Portland Mercury. The CoHo Theater in Portland will exhibit his work this month.

LESLIE PIETRZYK lives in Virginia and is the author of two novels: A Year and a Day (William Morrow/HarperCollins) and Pears on a Willow Tree (HarperPerennial).

DAVY ROTHBART is the creator of Found Magazine, a contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life, and the author of the short-story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas (Touchstone). He is currently at work on a documentary film about love, and is training to fly hot-air balloons. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MARVIN W. SCHWARTZ is a photographer who lives in New York City. His work is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

SYBIL SMITH is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

THEA SULLIVAN likes to play her 1965 Epiphone acoustic guitar and dreams about singing in a bluegrass band. She teaches writing in San Francisco.

GREGORY THORP’s favorite subject to photograph is corn. His work has been represented by Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty years. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

JULIA TUCHMAN lives in New York City.

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.

MARIE SHEPPARD WILLIAMS is a retired social worker who has won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Minnesota with a very large cat named Albert Einstein.

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.