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

POE BALLANTINE lives in Chadron, Nebraska, and his latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He wishes to tell Ismael Avila, his teacher and friend who died in March, “Vaya con Dios, mi amigo. Soon we will be together again for a cold Indio and a game of Scrabble.”

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, where she is relishing the brief break between spring’s black flies and summer’s mosquitoes. Her work has appeared in Sierra and Psychotherapy Networker, and she teaches writing both in person and online.

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

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He 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 moved to the U.S. from his native India in 1976 to study English literature but fell in love with photography instead. His work is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He lives in New York City.

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

ROBERT HECHT’s work has appeared in LensWork and Photographer’s Forum. He thinks of his pictures as visual haikus and is working on a book of original haiku poems and photographs. 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 lives in Powell, Wyoming, and teaches photography at Northwest College.

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 resides in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York (a hamlet of the Catskill Mountains), with his wife, Violet Snow, and daughter, Sylvia. He is reading the works of Freud — two pages a day. His latest book is called 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.