KELLY BARNHILL is a stay-at-home mom and writer who has also been a bartender, a park ranger, and a wilderness firefighter.

ELLEN BASS’s poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press) and Mules of Love (BOA Editions). She teaches in the mfa writing program at Pacific University.

ANN BAUER’s first novel, A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards (Scribner), was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. She teaches creative nonfiction at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has become an avid long-distance motorcycle rider. She lives in Minneapolis.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY was raised in the Bronx and now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he will spend the summer gardening, grilling, and golfing. He won a Pushcart Prize in 2008 and is currently working on a memoir called Little Red Love Machine.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

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.

THOMAS CLARK is a photographer, writer, tennis player, and part-time recluse. He lives in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he spends his days taking care of his disabled mother.

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.

MEGAN Q. DANIELS lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. She specializes in wedding, portrait, and stock photography, and her work has appeared in Mothering and Time.

MARGARET FOX is a photojournalist who also does portraiture and fine-art photography. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

BRUCE HOROWITZ is a photographer living in Rochester, New York.

THOMAS HYDE owned and edited a small community newspaper for a decade before selling it to pursue his passions, one of which is photography. He lives on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula with his wife, Sue.

EDIS JURCYS was born in Lithuania, studied film in Russia, and worked for eight years at Moscow Network Television. Two books of his photographs have been published in Lithuania. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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

HOWARD LUXENBERG runs a software-publishing company and also studies writing at Wesleyan University. His stories have appeared in Tin House, the Gettysburg Review, and the Iowa Review. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.

LAKE NEWTON is a photographer who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

BILL O’CONNELL’s poems have appeared in divide and Poetry East. Last June he traveled to Pskov, Russia, as part of a writers’ cultural exchange program. His chapbook On the Map to Your Life can be purchased by contacting the author at oconnelle@cs.com. He lives in Belchertown, Massachusetts.

PHYLLIS PONVERT is a photographer and activist who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

DAVID ROMTVEDT lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he has spent much of the past year building his house — digging the foundation, framing, insulating, hanging drywall, and now, finally, painting. His most recent book of poems is titled Some Church (Milkweed Editions).

GRETCHEN SEIFERT-GRAM is a photographer who lives in Merrionette Park, Illinois.

MARTIN STEINGESSER lives in Portland, Maine, where he is the city’s first poet laureate. He has published a book of poems, Brothers of Morning (Deerbrook Editions), and a cd, The Thinking Heart, which is a performance piece in two voices and cello based on the writings of a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust.

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.

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

KAREN TWEEDY-HOLMES works as an editor so that she doesn’t have to photograph lipstick or salad to pay the rent. She lives in New York City and devotes one day each weekend to a palomino quarter horse named Lucky, though she insists that she’s the lucky one.

JENNIFER WARREN is a freelance photographer whose work has been published by the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Amnesty International. She lives in New York City and is proficient in Arabic, Spanish, and American Sign Language.