POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

ELLEN BASS’s poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press) and Mules of Love (BOA Editions). She teaches in the mfa writing program at Pacific University.

MAUREEN BEITLER is a photographer and nurse living in New York City. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for her photographs of Harlem.

JEAN BRAITHWAITE lives in Edinburgh, Texas, where she teaches English, directs the MFA program, and struggles to improve her Spanish, all at the University of Texas-Pan American. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and Bayou.

AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY was raised in the Bronx and now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he will spend the summer gardening, grilling, and golfing. He won a Pushcart Prize in 2008 and is currently working on a memoir called Little Red Love Machine.

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.

KAREN CUNNINGHAM is a photographer who lives in New York City.

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

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

GARY HARWOOD is coauthor of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kent State University Press). He lives in Kent, Ohio.

ERIK HOFFNER is a renewable-energy activist who works for Orion magazine. He lives in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

JON HUGHES is a self-taught photojournalist who began taking pictures more than twenty years ago at the age of forty. Although he has been on assignment around the world, he considers Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives, to be his main documentary project.

PRESCOTT MOORE LASSMAN is a photographer and lawyer whose work has been published in the Washington Post and B&W. He lives in Washington, D.C.

DIANE LEFER sometimes goes out in public dressed as a Guantánamo prisoner as a form of protest. Once, she found herself with her hands in the air and two guns pointed at her head after she was mistaken for a terrorist by the police. She is the author of the short-story collection California Transit (Sarabande Books) and collaborated with theater artist and therapist Hector Aristizábal on Nightwind, a play about his arrest and torture at the hands of the U.S.–supported military in Colombia. She lives in Los Angeles.

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

ROBYN McDANIELS is a photographer living in Audubon, Minnesota.

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

LAKE NEWTON is a photographer who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

MADEENA SPRAY NOLAN published two novels so long ago that everyone, including her, has forgotten about them. Her darkest secret is her attendance at the 1960 Republican convention as a fanatic Kansas Youth for Nixon. She finally confessed this to her son and daughter-in-law, who have regarded her with a shade of suspicion ever since. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

SANDRA-LEE PHIPPS worked as a photojournalist for the Village Voice in New York City for eight years before moving to Camden, Maine.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE travels the world in search of the best images and also the best pizza. He lives in Powell, Wyoming, with his wife and their two fox terriers, Pokey and Picasso.

A.J. SHUMER is a photographer living in Westport, Massachusetts.

MARK SMITH-SOTO lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he serves as director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published two books of poetry, Our Lives Are Rivers (University Press of Florida) and Any Second Now (Main Street Rag Press).

RICK STEWART is a photographer who lives in San Francisco.

CHIP THOMAS is a photographer and family physician on the Navajo nation reservation in Shonto, Arizona.

PETER C. TRAGNI has been a police officer in Danbury, Connecticut, for twenty years. In 2004 he went to Iraq as a volunteer to help train the Iraqi police force. While he was there he took thousands of photographs. He lives in Waterbury, Connecticut.

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