ANTLER is the former poet laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and author of Exclamation Points Ad Infinitum! (Centennial Press). His poems have been included in the anthologies Poets against the War (Nation Books) and Poetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press). He lives in Milwaukee.

MOHAMMED BERNO is an Iranian photographer based in Tehran, Iran. He works for the Iranian Labor News Agency and is a contributor to the online news service documentiran.com.

SARAH BLODGETT is a commercial and fine-art photographer who lives in Ancram, New York. Her work has appeared in Fine Gardening, Martha Stewart Living, and the Knot.

ANN BLONDO is the pseudonym of a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Open City, Jane, and Portland Monthly, and she is currently writing a novel.

STEVEN BROCK was awarded a grant in the early 1980s to study the medicinal plants of Peru and Tibet, but once in those countries, he discovered he preferred to photograph the people. He lives in Inverness, California.

KEVIN BUBRISKI lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and has an upcoming exhibition of his photographs at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. His latest book is called Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero (powerHouse Books).

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, where she is relishing the brief break between spring’s black flies and summer’s mosquitoes. Her work has appeared in Sierra and Psychotherapy Networker, and she teaches writing both in person and online.

MORGAN CAUFIELD is a photographer who lives in a yurt in Occidental, California.

ALISON CLEMENT is the author of the novels Pretty Is as Pretty Does (MacAdam/Cage) and Twenty Questions (Atria). She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her partner, an old cat, and a faithful pit bull.

ARNIE COOPER sometimes wonders if teaching English as a second language might be hurting his ability to write. Bombarded by misspellings, misplaced modifiers, and mangled syntax, he fights to maintain his own knowledge of English. Luckily, none of the magazines he writes for have detected a problem. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN is a photographer whose work explores personal history, memory, and war. She lives in Utica, New York.

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

BRENDA FLYNN is a photographer, artist, and illustrator who lives in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. She dreams of winning the lottery and going to Tahiti.

TESS GALLAGHER is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, screenwriter, and translator. Her latest poetry collection is titled Dear Ghosts, (Graywolf Press). Her forthcoming book Distant Rain (Eastern Washington Press) is a conversation with Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

CHERYL GATLING lives in Syracuse, New York, and has worked the night shift at a hospital as a registered nurse for eighteen years. She is also a wife, mother, and graduate student.

ROBERTO GUERRA lives in La Paz, Bolivia, where he is working on a project about coca farmers.

MICHAEL KANE is a photographer who lives in Austin, Texas.

MATTHEW LESSNER is a photographer and filmmaker whose latest film, Darling Darling, has been screened at film festivals worldwide. He lives in Roseburg, Oregon.

TOM SUNDRO LEWIS used to make furniture but now makes photographs. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

ALISON LUTERMAN blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

RHONDA PATZIA has recently been taking portraits of naked women to promote body awareness and acceptance. She lives in Pella, Iowa.

MATTHEW M. QUICK’s first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, is forthcoming from Sarah Crichton Books, and his work has appeared in the Black Warrior Review, Meridian, and the Portland Review. He lives with his wife and their rescued greyhound in Collingswood, New Jersey.

GYPSY RAY is a photographer who lives outside of Kilkenny City, Ireland. She teaches part time at Ormonde College.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

ROY STANTON is a photographer who also works as a chauffeur. He lives in Los Angeles.

RAMIN TALAIE is a journalist and photographer who was born in Iran and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

COLE THOMPSON manages private vocational colleges and lives on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado. His work has been published in Popular Photography, Photographer’s Forum, and B&W.

THOMAS TULIS is a photographer living in Atlanta, Georgia.