PEGGY SUE AMISON has been a photographer for more than twenty years. In 2000 she moved from California to County Cork, Ireland, where she directs the Sirius Arts Centre.

JOSEPH BATHANTI’s most recent book, a collection of poems, is Restoring Sacred Art. Named by the North Carolina Poetry Society as a Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, he is professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University and also writer-in-residence at the university’s Watauga Global Community. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

THOMAS CLARK is a part-time photographer, writer, tennis player, and recluse. He lives in St. Albans, New York.

AARON M. COHEN earned a master’s degree in English literature but became disillusioned with academia and began taking photographs on a trip abroad. His work has since appeared in Time Out New York and Photographer’s Forum. He lives in Elmhurst, New York.

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.

DIANNE DUENZL loves to photograph foggy, dreamlike landscapes, which are rare where she lives, in the bright glare and drought of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ERIN DUNIGAN would take pictures of squirrels while on camping trips as a child. She teaches photography to at-risk teens and lives in Newport Beach, California.

LOIS JUDSON lives in New England, where she works with the elderly in their homes and is at war with her rooster.

OTIS KRIEGEL lives in New York City, where he teaches elementary school and runs a public-art collaborative.

KAREN LANDMANN speaks twelve languages, including Sranan Tongo, the creole language of Suriname. She lives in New York City.

FRANCES LEFKOWITZ was born poor in San Francisco, then attended an Ivy League college on scholarship and discovered the downside of upward mobility. Her journey is recounted in her memoir To Have Not  from MacAdam/Cage.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

KATHLEEN MENKE is a professional photographer who moved to Haines, Alaska, in 1995 and has been building herself a small home on the edge of town ever since.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.

ANDREA NELSON lives in New York City. When not taking photographs she enjoys running, reading, and wandering.

RANDALL RICHARDS is a photographer and screenwriter who lives in Culver City, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

KIP SIKORA's photograph in the September 2007 issue is his first publication. He lives in Houston, Texas, and will begin a master’s program in photojournalism this fall at the University of Montana.

KEITH HARMON SNOW is a photographer and human-rights investigative journalist who travels extensively in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

JESSICA MAX STEIN writes poetry and grows tomatoes in Brooklyn, New York.

COLE THOMPSON is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

THERESA WILLIAMS’s novel The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage) was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She is addicted to bubbly drinks, watermelon, and cowboy boots and lives in northwest Ohio with her husband, two Boston terriers, and an assortment of cats.

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD’s essay in this issue is from his memoir, Something Is Wrong with Me, for which a publishing deal is in the works. In prison for robbing banks with a toy gun, he welcomes mail to break up the steady flow of irs complaints and magazine rejection letters. (Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box  CMC-6273, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409)