ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MARCO CASTRO was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives with his wife and twin children in Brooklyn, New York.

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

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN was the founding director of Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, and is currently a visiting instructor at Hamilton College.

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’s photography books include Convergence, Among the Ashes, and Kutuuka. She has been taking photographs since she was three, when she took pictures of her stuffed bunny. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in Art Forum and The New York Times and is represented in public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

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.

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 is an ex-lawyer, an ex-drunk, a Catholic convert, and the author of three memoirs: Parched (the dark years), Redeemed (crawling toward the light), and Shirt of Flame. She blogs at www.shirtofflame.blogspot.com.

DOUG McMAINS is a photographer and cinematographer who lives in Herman, Nebraska. His work is represented by Getty Images.

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 lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and three dogs. His hobbies include playing piano and finding innovative ways to injure himself while biking, recent examples of which are getting his shoelaces caught in the spokes (long story), and crashing into a tree.

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 teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

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. 

JENNY WARBURG’s photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Time. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.