WILLIAM CARTER calls himself “a professional photographer hoping to become an amateur.” He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

THOMAS CLARK has been taking photographs for more than thirty years. He lives in Jamaica, New York.

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 organizes events that point towards our awakening awareness. He lives in mid-coast Maine and also directs the International Film Festival of the Spirit.

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.

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

ETHAN HUBBARD’s photos and writing in the August 2008 issue are from his latest book, Grandfather’s Gift: A Journey to the Heart of the World (Heron Dance Press). He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

LOIS JUDSON is the pseudonym of a writer who lives in New England.

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 blogs about art, life, performance, and poetry at www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com. She lives 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 an adjunct photo instructor at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen.

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 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).

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.