ERIC ANDERSON lives in Elyria, Ohio. Because of his unfortunately successful job search, he now teaches at various institutes of higher learning and will not be able to bowl on Monday nights this fall. He’s hoping to get fired by the first of the year.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM CARTER has been taking photographs for five decades. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MARCO CASTRO was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives in New York City, where he’s a photographer for the Mexican consulate. He is working on a project documenting the lives of immigrants and their assimilation into American society.

MARSHALL CLARKE’s photographs have appeared in Photographer’s Forum and the Photo Review. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

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.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN is a photographer whose work explores personal history, memory, and war. She lives in Utica, New York.

MICHELLE DUSSIM is the pseudonym of a writer who has just completed her master’s degree in international affairs at the New School. She lives in New York City.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of Among the Ashes and Convergence (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and has recently become an empty nester.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, Witness, and Artforum. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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

J.R. HELTON lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of Below the Line (Last Gasp Books), a memoir about his experiences as a set painter on more than twenty films. His friend R. Crumb, the legendary comic-book artist, did the cover art for the book.

JUDITH KEENAN has been taking photographs since her father gave her a Brownie box camera in the 1950s. She lives in Vallejo, California.

HEATHER KING’s latest book, PULSE: Heart of Jesus, A Conversion, is forthcoming from Viking. She is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and lives in Los Angeles.

DOUG MCMAINS’s photographs are represented by Getty Images. He lives in Herman, Nebraska.

JOHN MILISENDA is a commercial photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His photographs have been published in the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine. 

BRUCE E. MITCHELL has worked in a diesel garage, in a brick factory, and in France helping to rebuild medieval castles. But he is most proud of having taught more than four thousand students during thirty-two years as a high-school English teacher. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

AL NEIPRIS is writing a book on golf. “It’s about my struggle,” he says, “to become a semirespectable golfer despite an almost complete lack of athletic ability and a temperament utterly unsuited to the game.” He lives in Venice, Florida.

RICHARD NEWMAN's most recent poetry collection is Borrowed Towns (Word Press). He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spends his time editing River Styx magazine, playing basketball, and drinking Miller High Life at his neighborhood pub, the Cat's Meow.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

ELLEN SANTASIERO’s essays and interviews have appeared in Northwest Review, Marlboro Review, and High Desert Journal. She lives in Bend, Oregon.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE lives in Powell, Wyoming, and teaches photography at Northwest College.

DUSTIN BEALL SMITH worked until his midfifties as a key grip in the movie business (“an industry,” he says, “that eats its young and discards its elders”). He now teaches at Gettysburg College, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 

JENNIFER WARBURG is a photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.