SANTO BARBIERI is a photographer living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He recently completed a photo essay titled “Imagined Communities,” which examines urban public spaces and the relationships they foster.

MAUREEN BEITLER is a photographer and nurse living in New York City. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for her photographs of Harlem.

JANE BRASWELL is the pseudonym of an author in the Pacific Northwest who divides her time among parenting, writing, and volunteerism. She is currently at work on a collection of essays.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, where she is relishing the brief break between spring’s black flies and summer’s mosquitoes. Her work has appeared in Sierra and Psychotherapy Networker, and she teaches writing both in person and online.

JOHN CAMARA is a photographer living in Mill Valley, California. He spends his free time exploring the ruins of industrial-age America.

RONALD F. CURRIE JR.’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Swink, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Cincinnati Review. His fiction in the December 2005 issue is an excerpt from a novel-in-stories, for which he’s seeking an agent. He lives in Waterville, Maine.

SANDRA LOUISE DYAS is sometimes called the “rock-and-roll photographer of Iowa City, Iowa,” because she often photographs musicians. She lives with her two daughters and teaches in the art department at Cornell College.

COREY FISCHER cofounded the Traveling Jewish Theatre in 1978 and has worked in film, television, and theater for more than thirty-five years. He lives in Kentfield, California.

DUNCAN GREEN first discovered his love of photography at YMCA camp when he was eleven. He lives in Olympia, Washington, and is staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives.

CARLOS GUSTAVO lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His photographs have been published in Harper's, Elle, and Vogue.

DAVID BRENDAN HOPES is the author of A Childhood in the Milky Way (Akron University Press), which was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His latest volume of poetry, A Dream of Adonis, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

BRIAN JOLLEY created his photographs in the December 2005 issue by dropping his Polaroids where he took them, then returning weeks later to retrieve the pictures and “see what nature had to say for itself.” He lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

STEVE KOWIT sent the army a letter of resignation in 1969 and was visited soon after by army intelligence officers with a tape recorder. He later received a transcript of his interview that the army wanted him to sign. A San Francisco lawyer said his testimony was excellent — and that he should get out of town fast. Kowit and his wife spent the next several years in Mexico. He now lives in Potrero, California.

JEREMY LLOYD lives in Townsend, Tennessee, where he teaches natural history and leads wilderness trips in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His work has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal and North Carolina Literary Review.

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

MARTIN STEINGESSER is the author of the poetry collection Brothers of Morning (Deerbrook Editions). He teaches poetry to children through the Maine Arts Commission and likes to dance on stilts. He lives in Portland, Maine.

COLE THOMPSON manages private vocational colleges and lives on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado. His work has been published in Popular Photography, Photographer’s Forum, and B&W.

KAREN TWEEDY-HOLMES is coauthor of Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos (No Voice Unheard). She lives in New York City, although she vanishes into the Southwestern desert at every opportunity.

JERRY N. UELSMANN lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).

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.

HIROSHI WATANABE made commercials for Japanese television for twenty years before he quit to devote himself full time to fine-art photography. He lives in West Hollywood, California.