VELVY APPLETON is a photographer who plays guitar in a Brazilian dance band. He lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, California.

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).”

BEN BOBLETT is a family physician who also surfs and takes photographs. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.

ARNIE COOPER is a freelancer based in Santa Barbara, California, who has written for Dwell, Esquire, and the Wall Street Journal. Lately he’s been spending much of his time trying to convince his Akita pup, Kenta, to stop eating rocks and wood chips.

PEG DÍAZ is a photographer who lives in Barstow, California.

STEVE DONOSO is the director of the International Film Festival of the Spirit. He lives in Rockland, Maine.

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.

CARLOS GUSTAVO lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His photographs have been published in Harper's, Elle, and Vogue.

J.R. HELTON lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of Below the Line (Last Gasp Books), a memoir about his experiences as a set painter on more than twenty films. His friend R. Crumb, the legendary comic-book artist, did the cover art for the book.

NANCY HILL is working on a photography project about fools and has a closet full of jester and harlequin costumes. She lives in rainy Portland, Oregon.

JACK HITT is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and the public-radio program This American Life. His work recently appeared in The Best Science Writing 2006 (Harper Perennial). He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria and has been taking photographs for sixty years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery and maintains Image Photos, an archive of more than a half-million pictures.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

GARY MATSON lives in Sunnyside, New York. He recently received an e-mail from his ex-wife, with whom he had lost contact, after her daughter from another marriage told her, “That guy you used to be married to? I think he’s got a photo in The Sun.”

BETH MAYER’s work has appeared in the Threepenny Review and the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. She performs with the organization TalkingImage Connection and teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. She lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.

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.

PAMELA HOPE MOSELEY lives in Chicago, Illinois, and is learning digital photography. She has been a Montessori elementary-school teacher for twenty years.

VICTORIA PATTERSON recently won the Snake Nation Press prize for her nonfiction. She lives in South Pasadena, California, and has worked as a waitress for most of her adult life.

JIM RALSTON was raised on a farm in upstate Michigan, when there was still a taste of wilderness in the north. He now lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and teaches at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. He recently returned from six weeks in Brazil, where he visited the healer John of God in Abadiania and was healed of his resentments. He says, “I arrived a skeptic and left a skeptic but was healed anyway.”

DOUG RHINEHART is a retired college administrator who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, where the winter rains have taught him to swallow antidepressants. He is the author of Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer (Invisible Cities Press).

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CAROL SAMOUR lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland. Her photographs have been published in Kalliope, Shots, and Antietam Review.

MARK SMITH-SOTO lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he serves as director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published two books of poetry, Our Lives Are Rivers (University Press of Florida) and Any Second Now (Main Street Rag Press).

KIM STAFFORD directs the Northwest Writing Institute. His most recent book is A Thousand Friends of Rain: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie-Mellon University Press). He lives in Portland, Oregon.

CARROLL ANN SUSCO’s writing has been published in Gulf Coast and the Beloit Fiction Journal. She teaches English at Halifax Community College and lives in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

COLE THOMPSON lives in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas. His photographs have been published in B&W, Focus, and Photo Life.