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

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 has been taking photographs for more than thirty years. He lives in Jamaica, New York.

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’s photos and writing in the August 2008 issue are from his latest book, Grandfather’s Gift: A Journey to the Heart of the World (Heron Dance Press). He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

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

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living 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 a journalist and musician whose book The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America will be published in the spring by New City Press. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and hosts a weekly radio program on Free Radio Santa Cruz.

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’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review and Shots. She lives in Germantown, Maryland.

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 resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called 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 is a photographer and writer who lives with her dog, Loulou, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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.