RYAN ANDERSON is a photographer and archaeologist. He lives in Oceanside, California.

POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

DAVID BARSAMIAN founded and directs the award-winning radio program Alternative Radio. His latest book is a collection of conversations with Howard Zinn called Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics (Harper Perennial). He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

NICOLE BLAISDELL is a photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

MARK BRAZAITIS is the author of An American Affair: Stories (Texas Review Press), which won the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Prize. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Morgantown, West Virginia, and prefers swimming, hiking, bike riding — just about any recreational activity — to golf.

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.

GLENN CALLAHAN is a photographer who lives in Johnson, Vermont.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

BLEU CEASE is a photographer living in Rochester, New York.

SUSAN DAVIS is producer of The State of Things, a news, arts, and culture program that airs on the public-radio station in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is also the author of the poetry collection Gathering Sound (Fairweather Books).

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ARVIND GARG lives in New York City. He came to the U.S. in 1976 from India to study English literature but fell in love with photography instead. His work is represented by Corbis and Getty.

CARLOS GUSTAVO lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His photographs have been published in Harper's, Elle, and Vogue.

ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

STEVE KOWIT sent the army a letter of resignation in 1969 and was visited soon after by army intelligence officers with a tape recorder. He later received a transcript of his interview that the army wanted him to sign. A San Francisco lawyer said his testimony was excellent — and that he should get out of town fast. Kowit and his wife spent the next several years in Mexico. He now lives in Potrero, California.

MIKE MATZKIN began taking photographs after winning a Kodak camera in a barracks craps game while he was in the army during World War II. His work has been published in High Fidelity, Modern Photography, and Shutterbug. He lives in Peru, New York.

JOHN McDERMOTT began his career as a photojournalist for the Associated Press but now primarily takes fine-art photographs of nudes. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

GLENN PAPE writes poetry in Portland, Oregon. He says he knew he and his family were Portland natives when his then four-year-old daughter stood on the front porch and said, “Look, Dad, there’s a sun cloud!” “What’s a sun cloud?” he asked. “You know,” she said, “when the sun gets in the way of the clouds.”

KEVIN PATTERSON taught U.S. history at an international high school in Damascus, Syria, for two years. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and runs the website www.ahwehcafe.com, which publishes short travel narratives.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE travels the world in search of the best images and also the best pizza. He lives in Powell, Wyoming, with his wife and their two fox terriers, Pokey and Picasso.

KEITH SHARP is a photographer who teaches art in public elementary schools. He lives with approximately sixty pet finches in Media, Pennsylvania.

SYBIL SMITH has been published in Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, and the MacGuffin. She lives in Norwich, Vermont.

SPARROW lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he does Sudoku and follows the Yankees. He is the author of America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

STEVE WILKE is a photographer living in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

ANNA WOLF is a photographer who lives in Hollywood, California.