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

ROB BREZSNY writes the widely syndicated column Free Will Astrology and is the author of three books. He is also the creator of “Sacred Uproar,” a pagan revival show featuring prayers, meditations, rituals, and music. He lives north of San Francisco.

GEOFF OLIVER BUGBEE has worked in more than twenty countries as a photojournalist, documenting such issues as hiv/aids and curable blindness. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

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

DANE CERVINE lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he is chief of children’s mental health for his county. He found his calling when he quit his job at a tomato cannery and started working at a psychiatric hospital. His latest book of poetry is The Jeweled Net of Indra (Plain View Press).

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

SUSIE FORRESTER's photographs have been published in the Photo Review and Hope magazine. She lives in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

BAYARD TAYLOR HORTON spent twenty years as a newspaper and wire-service photographer. He lives in Palm Bay, Florida, and is writing a novel.

ERIN RACHEL HUDAK is a photographer, painter, and writer who lives with the love of her life on a crooked river in Kent, Ohio. She is moving to New York City in December.

ALAN MASS is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ROBERT McGEE recently completed Rational Managers for Irrational Times, a collection of stories set in American offices. His work has appeared in Carve Magazine and NPR’s National Story Project anthology, I Thought My Father Was God (Henry Holt and Co.). He lives in a forest near Asheville, North Carolina, where he’s at work on a novel, a screenplay, and an unruly horse.

KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI is a portrait and travel photographer who loves airports, doesn’t own a television, and secretly devours the wedding section of the Sunday New York Times. His work has appeared in Time, the Washington Post Magazine, and Reader’s Digest. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON’s photographs have been published in Newsweek, Life, and the New York Times. She lives in Cobleskill, New York, where she grows peas, lettuce, and chives.

KAREN MORGAN is a photographer living in Richmond, Virginia.

BRIAN PETERSON is a photographer who lives in Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.

SYBIL SMITH has been published in Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, and the MacGuffin. She lives in Norwich, Vermont.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JENNIFER WARBURG is a photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.

KATE WEST is a photographer living in Washington, D.C. She recently completed a project titled “Disarmament Begins at Home,” which documents one family’s experience in the peace-and-justice movement.

BILL WITT is a photographer who has also been a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, an assembler of tractor transmissions, and an Iowa state legislator. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

GENIE ZEIGER has been busy giving readings from her two new books: Radio Waves (White Pine Press), a poetry collection; and Atta Girl! (Sherman Asher Publishing), a memoir. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts, with her husband, Bill.