BOB BAYLES is a photographer who lives in Van Nuys, California. He likes to incorporate quotes from movies in conversation, which leads his family to playfully accuse him of being unoriginal. “Either that,” he says, “or they actually believe ‘I’m very shallow and empty, and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say’ (Annie Hall).”

TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

J.R. CARRIGAN is a photographer living in Burlington, Vermont.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

ERIN CORBAL is a photographer and compulsive list-maker who took great satisfaction in writing up this biographical note and crossing it off her list. She lives with her husband in Altadena, California.

VIRGINIA ELIOT is a writer living in New York City.

FRANK HAMRICK’s photography career began at age ten, when he traded an old hat for a cheap 35mm camera. He is the author of i found it when i stopped looking (Nexus Press). He lives in Gray, Georgia.

JEFFREY HERSCH is a photographer who has unloaded cod from fishing boats and mucked out horse stalls. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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.

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

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.

DEIRDRE PETERSON is a writer living in New York City. After years of helping businesspeople say what they want to say, she is now writing what she wants to say.

ROGER PFINGSTON is a retired teacher of English and photography who lives in Bloomington, Indiana. His poetry has been published in The Dos Passos Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, and The Sylvan Echo.

MICHAEL POLLAN is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include The Botany of Desire (Random House), A Place of My Own (Delta), and Second Nature (Grove Press). He lives in Berkeley, California.

MELANIE A. RAWLS lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is a writing instructor at Florida A&M University.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

LAURIE SERMOS recently returned home to her dachshund, Hugo, after teaching photography for three months in Tuscany, Italy. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MANDELIENE SMITH has waited tables, scooped ice cream, taught writing, weeded gardens, and translated books into Braille to support her writing habit. Her stories have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MORGAN TYREE photographs small-town high-school football, and his work has been published in Harper’s and Shots. He teaches graphic arts at Northwest College and lives in Powell, Wyoming.

JANINE POMMY VEGA is the author of twenty books of poetry and prose. Her most recent book of poems is The Green Piano (Black Sparrow Books). She has performed her work — in English and Spanish, with and without music — at festivals, nightclubs, college campuses, and prisons. She lives in Bearsville, New York.

ELLEN WALLENSTEIN is an artist and tarot-card reader who divides her time between New York City and Sherman, Connecticut. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute in New York.