JEAN BRAITHWAITE lives in Edinburgh, Texas, where she teaches English, directs the MFA program, and struggles to improve her Spanish, all at the University of Texas-Pan American. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and Bayou.

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

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.

POLLY CHANDLER works as a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives, and her work has appeared in American Photo and Shots. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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.

REBECCA DROBIS loves to wear red shoes and walk around strange places with her camera. She lives in Venice, California.

NOELLE GABERMAN is a photographer who lives in Occidental, California. She takes photographs of weddings to make money and of her son to capture his smile.

ROBERT GRAHAM is a frustrated amateur photographer living in Chatham County, North Carolina. He is also art director at The Sun. He recently parted with a beloved electric guitar, after age and propriety overtook him.

KARI HAGA is in search of the smoothest river rock that water has ever produced. She lives in Billings, Montana.

KAREN KARVONEN does freelance writing for national magazines from her home in Englewood, Colorado, and edits the Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse. She has belonged to the same dream-work group for eighteen years.

JASON LANGER’s book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

IGOR MALIJEVSKY is a photographer, poet, and short-story writer living in the Czech Republic.

SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS’s book of poems, We Generous, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. He lives with his wife and son in Asheville, North Carolina, where he teaches part time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a literary journal. He trespasses daily on the local public golf course with his chocolate lab, Ursula.

SUZANNE MURRAY lives in Sonoma County, California, where she teaches writing workshops and occasionally hears a mountain lion in the redwood forest that surrounds her home. She is known for her ability to imitate a wide range of birdcalls, including those of the bald eagle and the common loon.

SUSAN PERABO lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Dickinson College. Her short-story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be (Simon & Schuster), was named a “Book of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times. She once shoved then-New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman out of the way to get the last doughnut at a breakfast buffet.

ERIC PUCHNER’s short stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, the Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, and the anthology Best New American Voices 2005 (Harvest Books). His new short-story collection is titled Music through the Floor (Scribner). He teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel.

ERIC RAWSON lives and works in Los Angeles. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Commonweal, and the online magazine Slate.

MIRIAM ROMAIS is a photographer and managing director of En Foco, Inc., a Bronx nonprofit that exhibits work by photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. An avid motorcyclist, she lives in New York City.

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

BUCKY WILCOX is a photographer living in Grass Valley, California.

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD is the father of three perfect sons. He has worked in radio, construction, and at a pineapple factory. While traveling with his band, the Saint James Catastrophe, he picked up the heroin-smoking habit, which led to prison. Correspondence can be sent to: Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box 8103, CMC East-6223, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409.

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.