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 and Mules of Love. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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 reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY is originally from the Bronx but now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he is working on a childhood memoir called Little Red Love Machine.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

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.

THOMAS CLARK is a part-time photographer, writer, tennis player, and recluse. He lives in St. Albans, New York.

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.

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 a small community newspaper for a decade before selling it to pursue writing and photography. He lives with his wife on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

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 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. 

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.