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 fourth book of poems, The Human Line, was published in 2007 by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, and teaches writing retreats in some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

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 attorney who likes to take photographs close to home. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY was raised in the Bronx, New York, and now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches composition and screenwriting at Columbus College of Art and Design, moonlights as a bartender, and spends too much time playing Texas Hold 'Em with his girlfriend, Lena. His work has appeared in Obsidian II and Callaloo.

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER calls himself “a professional photographer hoping to become an amateur.” He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

THOMAS CLARK has been taking photographs for more than thirty years. He lives in Jamaica, New York.

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.

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 recently sold the community newspaper he owned and edited for more than a decade so that he could pursue photography and writing. He lives in Elma, Washington.

EDIS JURCYS is a Lithuanian photographer living 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’s most recent book of poems is Some Church (Milkweed Editions). He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he plays dance music of the Americas with his band, the Fireants.

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

MARTIN STEINGESSER is the author of the poetry collection Brothers of Morning (Deerbrook Editions). He teaches poetry to children through the Maine Arts Commission and likes to dance on stilts. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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 on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas.

KAREN TWEEDY-HOLMES's photographs have been published in the New York Times and National Geographic. She lives in New York City and devotes one day a week to a palomino horse named Lucky.

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.