HARRIET BROWN has been writing poetry since she was twelve and still remembers the title of her first poem: “War.” She edits the regional magazine Wisconsin Trails and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

GARY BUSLIK teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lives in Lake County, in a mostly Republican subdivision with streets named after American weapons systems.

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.

JACKIE CUTLIP-NILES is collaborating with her thirteen-year-old daughter on a poetry and photography project. She lives in Dunkirk, Maryland.

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, New York.

DORIAN GOSSY is the author of the short-story collection Household Lies (Winnow Press). She is a graduate student in social work and lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

DANIEL J. HOFFMAN ongoing photography project In Protest is a study of marches and demonstrations. He lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.

GILLIAN KENDALL is the author of the memoir Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet (University of Wisconsin Press). She cultivates a native garden and an Aussie identity in Melbourne, Australia.

JASON LANGER’s book of photographs is titled Secret City (Nazraeli Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

JADINA LILIEN is a photographer and filmmaker living in New York City.

BONNIE LINDEN lives in Santa Cruz, California. She practices piano assiduously and plans to be a professional musician in a future incarnation.

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

GARY MATSON lives in Sunnyside, New York. He recently received an e-mail from his ex-wife, with whom he had lost contact, after her daughter from another marriage told her, “That guy you used to be married to? I think he’s got a photo in The Sun.”

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. 

SUSAN MOON is the author of The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi (Shambhala). A Zen student for thirty years, she lives in Berkeley, California.

ANNETTE OPALCZYNSKI’s poems have appeared in the Delmarva Quarterly and the Paterson Literary Review. She lives in New Castle, Delaware.

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

LEE ROSSI is the perfect company man. He has no hobbies or interests outside his job. He barely remembers his wife’s name, and indeed has forgotten the names of his two children. He believes that if no one notices him, maybe Death will overlook him too.  He is the author of two books of poetry: Ghost Diary (Terrapin Press) and Beyond Rescue (Bombshelter Press). He lives in Culver City, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

LAUREN SLATER is the author of Prozac Diary (Penguin) and Opening Skinner’s Box (Bloomsbury Publishing). She says her essay in the August 2007 issue is part of a collection about “the grand, fascinating, and consistently relevant event called My Life.” She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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).

TIM STEGMAIER is a photographer and co-owner of Life Force, which makes raw, organic energy bars and breads. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

DREW ALLEN TANNER is a photographer who lives in Marlinton, West Virginia.

COLE THOMPSON lives in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas. His photographs have been published in B&W, Focus, and Photo Life.

GREGORY THORP lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and takes photographs commercially for several barge lines on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His personal subject of choice, however, is corn, in all its forms.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MORGAN TYREE, who lives in Powell, Wyoming, rode with and photographed a trucker for eight thousand miles through twenty states last summer. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly and Referee. He is seeking a book publisher for his photographs of high-school football.

MARK WISNIEWSKI is the author of the novel Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman (Hi Jinx Press) and the poetry collection One of Us One Night (Platonic 3Way Press). He lives in Lake Peekskill, New York.