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 takes photographs both in faraway locations and in his hometown of Shaftsbury, Vermont.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

MORGAN CAUFIELD died in February 2010 at the age of fifty-four. She worked with developmentally disabled children in Sebastopol, 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 wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN was the founding director of Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, and is currently a visiting instructor at Hamilton College.

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

BRENDA FLYNN is a photographer, artist, and illustrator living in Ormond Beach, Florida. She dreams of winning the lottery and traveling 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 lives in San Francisco.

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

RHONDA PATZIA is a writer and photographer who leads workshops for women. 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 is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

THOMAS TULIS  lives in Atlanta, Georgia.