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

POE BALLANTINE does not need bifocals, he says, as he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose to read. He is the author of the true-crime book Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, due out in 2012, and the subject of the documentary Poe Ballantine, A Writer in America (copies of which can be purchased for $13.99, shipping included, from Al Saperstein, P.O. Box 111, Earleton, Florida, 32631). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

DAVID BARSAMIAN is founder and director of Alternative Radio, a weekly radio program based in Boulder, Colorado (www.alternativeradio.org). His books include Original Zinn, coauthored with Howard Zinn, and How the World Works, co­authored with Noam Chomsky. In his spare time he lectures worldwide, reads Urdu poetry, and listens to Indian ragas.

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’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in 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 is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is currently traveling the southeastern U.S. His photographs have been published in B&W and Oxford American.

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

STEVE KOWIT likes to point out that, although people don’t think writers earn much money, he and the nation’s leading romance novelist earn a combined income of approximately $60 million a year. He lives in California with his beloved wife, six cats, and two dogs.

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 teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

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

SYBIL SMITH is a retired nurse who lives in Vermont. Her work recently appeared in Weber—The Contemporary West.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

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.