WILLIAM CARTER plays the clarinet and chairs the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. His new book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, will be published by Steidl in 2010. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

THOMAS CLARK is a photographer, writer, tennis player, and part-time recluse. He lives in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he spends his days taking care of his disabled mother.

ANA DJORDJEVICH has wanted to be published in The Sun ever since she took her first black-and-white photography class in 1999. She lives in San Francisco.

STEVE DONOSO is the director of the International Film Festival of the Spirit. He lives in Rockland, Maine.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of two books of photographs: Convergence and Among the Ashes (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

DENISE GESS is the author of two novels, Good Deeds and Red Whiskey Blues (both Crown). She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ETHAN HUBBARD is the author of Salt Pork & Apple Pie (RavenMark), a collection of essays and photographs celebrating a disappearing generation of farmers, loggers, and others who live close to the land. He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

LOIS JUDSON is a writer who lives in Vermont with her boyfriend and her neurotic cat. She is amazed to discover that getting sober has left her with writer’s block, so she spends her time quilting, gardening, and admiring the mushrooms that grow in her yard.

KAREN KEATING is the director of Photoworks, Inc., a nonprofit photo-education program in Glen Echo, Maryland. She has traveled to Cuba four times and is working on a book of photographs of Cuban women.

JAMES KULLANDER lives in New York’s Hudson Valley and is editor-in-chief of print and online publications at Omega Institute.

ALISON LUTERMAN is adjusting to domestic bliss, milking the chickens and harvesting the cactus with her beloved on their little homestead in Oakland, California. 

ALEX MINDT is the author of the story collection Male of the Species (Delphinium/ HarperCollins) and is a winner of a 2006 Pushcart Prize. He has worked more than fifty jobs, from schoolteacher to truck driver to professional gambler. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

DION OGUST lives in Woodstock, New York, and is a staff photographer for the Woodstock Times. Her portraits of writers and musicians have appeared on book and CD covers.

GARY OLIVEIRA is a photographer who lives in Seattle, Washington, and teaches art at Green River Community College. His work has appeared in Culturefront and Public Culture.

DOUG RHINEHART is a retired college administrator who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

EDWIN ROMOND was a high-school English teacher for thirty-two years and is now a visiting author in Pennsylvania and New Jersey schools. His latest book of poems is Dream Teaching (Grayson Books). 

MAGGIE ROWE lives in Newark, Delaware, where she is building a hexagonal writing hut with her husband’s help. She is seeking a publisher for her first book of poetry, Unlearning the Colors of Leaves.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

PETER SELGIN’s writing has appeared in Best American Essays 2006 (Houghton Mifflin), and he is the author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (Writer’s Digest Books). He leads an annual writing workshop in Italy and lives in the Bronx, New York.

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).

SCOTT STREBLE received a Kodak Purchase Award for his photography work with Doctors without Borders. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

LEAH TRUTH is the pseudonym of a writer who lives in western Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in writing and self-inquiry. She also maintains a private healing practice that combines hypnotherapy, shamanism, and Buddhism. 

LEAH VINLUAN has taken photographs in Nepal, India, Japan, Korea, and Morocco. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.