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 plays the clarinet and chairs the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. His new book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, will be published by Steidl in 2010. 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 living in Brooklyn, New York.

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

KARI HAGA is in search of the smoothest river rock that water has ever produced. 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 is adjusting to domestic bliss, milking the chickens and harvesting the cactus with her beloved on their little homestead 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 of the novels Sky Bridge and Hell’s Bottom, Colorado (both Milkweed Editions). She lives in Bellvue, Colorado, and is editing two upcoming essay collections about conservation issues.

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.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE travels the world in search of the best images and also the best pizza. He lives in Powell, Wyoming, with his wife and their two fox terriers, Pokey and Picasso.

TRAVELER TAJ TERPENING is a photographer who recently returned from a biking trip over the Andes and plans to kayak down the Amazon River later this year. He lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

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 lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and takes photographs commercially for several barge lines on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His personal subject of choice, however, is corn, in all its forms.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.