NASRIN ALAVI is a journalist who grew up in Iran. She has studied and taught engineering in Britain and the U.S., and currently lives in London.

AL BARNA is a photographer living and working in San Francisco, California.

ROBERT BLY is the author of nineteen collections of poetry, as well as numerous books of translations and prose. He has also been a prominent antiwar activist and leader in the men’s movement. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

KRISTA BREMER works at The Sun and is writing a memoir. This summer her work will appear in MORE and O: The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and is currently in the market for a house that is cozy yet spacious, sunny yet private, and luxurious yet affordable. She plans to live there with her husband (stubborn yet forgiving), her kids (maddening yet irresistible), and her cat (aloof yet needy).

MICHAEL CHITWOOD’s seventh collection of poems, Clamor, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2010. He teaches at the University of North Carolina and lives in Chapel Hill with his two children, who sigh whenever they see him trying to send a text message.

JACOB COWGILL is a photographer doing graduate work in the environmental-studies program at the University of Montana. His bicycle collection is bordering on an obsession, and he is currently seeking the ultimate single-speed mountain bike. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

ELLEN GIAMPORTONE’s latest project is photographing her neighborhood during the full moon. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

STEVE KOWIT likes to point out that, although people don’t think writers earn much money, he and the nation’s leading romance novelist earn a combined income of approximately $60 million a year. He lives in California with his beloved wife, six cats, and two dogs.

JAMES LePORE is a photographer and writer whose latest novel is Sons and Princes. He lives in South Salem, New York.

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

JOAN MARCUS lives with her husband and young daughters in the hills outside Ithaca, New York, where she spends half the year tending her vegetable garden and the other half huddled over her wood stove. Her fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, Puerto del Sol, and the Beloit Fiction Journal. She is seeking a publisher for her first novel, titled Saturn Returning.

GARY MATSON once appeared on television in New Orleans, Louisiana, dancing under the stars, wearing one orange and one yellow sneaker. He lives in Sunnyside, New York.

JENN REIDEL is a writer, photographer, and website designer who lives in Vashon, Washington.

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is trying to simultaneously learn Finnish, Hungarian, and Japanese.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

S. LONDON SCHERTZER is a photographer living in Dillon, Colorado.

JASON SCHOSSLER’s stories and poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Confrontation, and Willow Springs. He lives in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, where he works as a legal journalist and remains convinced that reading a judgment non obstante veredicto beats the pants off Ulysses.

RAMIN TALAIE is a journalist and photographer who was born in Iran and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JENNIFER WARREN is a freelance photographer whose work has been published by the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Amnesty International. She lives in New York City and is proficient in Arabic, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

LYNNE JAEGER WEINSTEIN’s photographs have been published in O: The Oprah Magazine, Orion, and Parenting. She lives in Putney, Vermont.