RYAN ANDERSON is a photographer and archaeologist. He lives in Oceanside, California.

ERIC BOSSE is editor of the online journal The God Particle. He is working on a novel about an American circus-sideshow impresario posing as a German in Italy after World War II. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

DANA CANN lives with his wife and two children in Bethesda, Maryland, where he makes chocolate-chip pancakes every Saturday morning. His stories have appeared in the Florida Review, Blackbird, and Dislocate. He is currently seeking an agent for his recently completed novel, The Happy World.

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.

MATTHEW DESHE CASHION teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is the author of the novel How the Sun Shines on Noise (Livingston Press). His work has appeared in Wind, Hawai’i Review, and Wisconsin Review. He lives in La Crosse.

RYAN FOX photographs weddings using top-of-the-line equipment, but is most proud of the pictures he takes with a plastic camera he bought for twenty-three dollars. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

MICHAEL GALINSKY is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

CARLOS GUSTAVO is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is currently traveling the southeastern U.S. His photographs have been published in B&W and Oxford American.

KARI HAGA is a graphic designer by day and an artist by night. She lives in Billings, Montana.

SUSAN CAROL HAUSER’s books include Outside after Dark: New and Selected Poems (Loonfeather Press) and You Can Write a Memoir (Writer’s Digest Books). She is a professor of English at Bemidji State University and lives in Puposky, Minnesota.

RICHARD HEINTZE is a photographer who lives in Menlo Park, California.

JOE HOYNIK is a photographer who lives in Los Angeles.

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

SADIE KING is a photographer living in Three Rivers, California.

JAMES KULLANDER lives in New York’s Hudson Valley and is editor-in-chief of print and online publications at Omega Institute.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

CHARLIE MEHRHOFF is a poet who lives in Lyons, Colorado.

LINK NICOLL photographs mostly people — some famous, some not. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

DANA PIANOWSKI is a photographer, painter, and mother of two daughters. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

LAURA PRITCHETT is the author or editor of five books, her favorite being her first, Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which she wrote when she was young and didn’t know anything about agents or the publishing world. Her newest book, about Colorado’s bears, is due out this month. She lives in northern Colorado and teaches at workshops around the country.

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.

CAROL SAMOUR’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review, Kalliope, and Shots. She lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland.

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

TRAVELER TAJ TERPENING is a photographer and Web-page designer who divides his time equally among Homer, Alaska; Bisbee, Arizona; and Berlin, Germany.

CORVIN THOMAS lives in San Francisco. As a writer, he takes inspiration from the language of his two children: “I got stung by a pimple,” his two-year-old daughter says; “I smell bacon on the baby wind,” says his four-year-old son.

GREGORY THORP’s favorite subject to photograph is corn. His work has been represented by Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty years. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.