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.” 

JAMY BOND received a Fulbright grant in 2004 to travel to Mozambique to research and write a book about the death of her younger sister. She is now seeking a publisher for the resulting memoir, Mouths Full of Love, from which her essay in the February 2006 issue is excerpted. She has decided to stay in Mozambique, where she is currently working on a novel.

BRIGITTE CARNOCHAN is the author of Bella Figura (Modernbook Editions). She lives in Portola Valley, California, where she loves to photograph her dog, Muggs, doing just about anything for a dog biscuit.

THOMAS CLARK is a photographer, writer, tennis player, and part-time recluse. He lives in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he spends his days taking care of his disabled mother.

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TESS GALLAGHER is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, screenwriter, and translator. Her latest poetry collection is titled Dear Ghosts, (Graywolf Press). Her forthcoming book Distant Rain (Eastern Washington Press) is a conversation with Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

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

MARIE HUARD lives in Philadelphia. Her photograph in the February 2006 issue was taken with a pinhole camera on a day trip to New York City.

ETHAN HUBBARD is the author of Salt Pork & Apple Pie (RavenMark), a collection of essays and photographs celebrating a disappearing generation of farmers, loggers, and others who live close to the land. He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

ANGILA JAEGGLI is a photographer who lives in Bellevue, Washington.

EDIS JURCYS was born in Lithuania, studied film in Russia, and worked for eight years at Moscow Network Television. Two books of his photographs have been published in Lithuania. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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.

JOHN MALKIN is the author of Sounds of Freedom (Parallax Press) and The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America (Wipf & Stock). He lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he hosts a radio show on Free Radio Santa Cruz, a commercial-free, collectively run station that has been operating without a government license since 1995.

KIRK NESSET is the author of Mr. Agreeable (Mammoth Press), a book of short stories, and a nonfiction book, The Stories of Raymond Carver (Ohio University Press). He is associate professor of English and creative writing at Allegheny College and also hosts a weekly gothic-rock radio show on WARC-FM called Black Planet — music for the depressed, dispossessed, undernourished, and unforgiven. He lives in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

RICHARD NEWMAN's most recent poetry collection is Borrowed Towns (Word Press). He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spends his time editing River Styx magazine, playing basketball, and drinking Miller High Life at his neighborhood pub, the Cat's Meow.

CAROL SAMOUR lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland. Her photographs have been published in Kalliope, Shots, and Antietam Review.

KEITH HARMON SNOW is a photographer and human-rights investigative journalist who travels extensively in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

SPARROW lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he does Sudoku and follows the Yankees. He is the author of America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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

LOUANNE WATLEY lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her work is archived at the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have been published in the Carolina Quarterly, Calyx, and North Carolina Literary Review.

RICHARD WHITTAKER is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California. He publishes an art magazine called works + conversations.

MADELINE WILSON teaches photography at a private high school and is an avid sea kayaker who has completed two trips down the Hudson River. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.