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.” 

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 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.

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 is a freelancer based in Santa Barbara, California, who has written for Dwell, Esquire, and the Wall Street Journal. Lately he’s been spending much of his time trying to convince his Akita pup, Kenta, to stop eating rocks and wood chips.

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 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.

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.

JENNY WARBURG’s photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Time. She lives 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 recently began singing international music in a chorus. Her book What Happened Was . . . : Writing Memoir and Personal Essay is forthcoming in 2009 from White Pine Press. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts.