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

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights attorney who likes to take photographs close to home. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM CARTER calls himself “a professional photographer hoping to become an amateur.” 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 was a registered nurse for twenty-two years before becoming a photographer. 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 is a photographer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she’s just planted her first vegetable garden.

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.

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 lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she’s toying with the idea of founding an institute for Christian studies. “Either that,” she says, “or cleaning out my refrigerator.”

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 is an adjunct photo instructor at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen.

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’s most recent book of poems is Some Church (Milkweed Editions). He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he plays dance music of the Americas with his band, the Fireants.

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 who lives in Austin, Texas. Her documentary film Dear Mr. President, about a group of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls on a road trip across America, has been shown at film festivals worldwide.

COLE THOMPSON lives on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas.

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

HARRY WILSON is retired after teaching photography at Bakersfield College for thirty-four years. He lives in Bakersfield, California.