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

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

ROBIN CUNNINGHAM works as an ultrasound technician by day, attends creative-writing classes at night, and takes photographs in between. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

SUSAN DONNELLY is the author of the poetry collections Eve Names the Animals (Northeastern University Press) and Transit (Iris Press). She is one of forty-five first cousins in an Irish American family with a love of literature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SUSI EGGENBERGER likes to hike the hut-to-hut system in the White Mountains and float on Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park. She lives in Arundel, Maine.

SARA FERGUSON has lived and taken photographs in the American West and Australia. She currently lives in her hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

SHARON LEE HART teaches photography in Nashville, Tennessee, and recently completed a photography project about farm-animal sanctuaries.

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.

BARRY LOPEZ is the author of Arctic Dreams (Vintage), Of Wolves and Men (Scribner), and thirteen other books of fiction and nonfiction. He is editor of the forthcoming collection Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (Trinity University Press). He lives near Eugene, Oregon.

LINDA McCULLOUGH MOORE is doing headstands and sending up flares to herald the publication of her new collection of stories, This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon, a book that she says comes highly recommended by the author. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

LYDIA PEELLE lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her fiction appears in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (Anchor) and is included in the forthcoming Best New American Voices 2007 (Harvest Books).

GEORGE PEER takes photographs with a pinhole camera. His work has been collected by the Walker Art Center, the Sierra Club, and the Plains Art Museum. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.

DOUG RHINEHART’s first book of photographs is Desert Adagio (People’s Press). He is a retired community-college administrator and photography instructor who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

CURT RODE’s writing has appeared in the Florida Review, Sycamore Review, and Poem. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and teaches American poetry and creative writing at Texas Christian University.

DAVID ROMTVEDT lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he has spent much of the past year building his house — digging the foundation, framing, insulating, hanging drywall, and now, finally, painting. His most recent book of poems is titled Some Church (Milkweed Editions).

MARVIN W. SCHWARTZ is a photographer who lives in New York City. His work is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

MICHAEL SHAPIRO is the author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers’ Tales). He lives in Sebastopol, California, and volunteers for a group that takes disabled people on sea-kayaking and river-rafting adventures.

JAN SHOEMAKER’s work has appeared in the Rambler and on National Public Radio. She lives in Okemos, Michigan, with the two important males in her life: her husband, Larry, who builds her fires and pours her wine, and their golden retriever, Atticus, who keeps her warm on the couch.

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

DEBRA SUGERMAN is a photographer and filmmaker from Austin, Texas.

COLE THOMPSON is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

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

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.