DEBRA BAIDA lives in San Francisco. Photography has been her passion since she was four, when she sat on a stool in her father’s darkroom and watched images appear on paper floating in trays of liquid.

JAMES CARROLL gazed out car windows as a child and imagined stories to fit the scenes he saw, a practice he believes led to his forty-year career as a photographer. He lives in New York City.

JEFFREY HERSCH is a photographer who has unloaded cod from fishing boats and mucked out horse stalls. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

CLEMENS KALISCHER signed up for his first photography course in 1947 and has been taking pictures ever since. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he has run the Image Gallery for more than thirty years.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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

ADRIE KUSSEROW lives in Underhill Center, Vermont, and teaches anthropology at St. Michael’s College. Her book of poems is called Hunting Down the Monk (BOA Editions). She and her husband cofounded the New Sudan Education Initiative, which has built the first school for girls in Yei, Sudan.

MICHAEL V. LIMBERT is a photographer who plays with the band Fortune & Maltese. He lives in Royal Oak, Michigan.

MARGARET McMULLAN is the author of five novels, including When I Crossed No-Bob (Houghton Mifflin) and In My Mother’s House (Picador). She is a professor of English at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, where she raises tomatoes and basil every summer with her husband and son.

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.

MATTHEW M. QUICK’s first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, is forthcoming from Sarah Crichton Books, and his work has appeared in the Black Warrior Review, Meridian, and the Portland Review. He lives with his wife and their rescued greyhound in Collingswood, New Jersey.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CAROL SAMOUR’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review and Shots. She lives in Germantown, Maryland.

LUC SAUNDERS is editorial assistant at The Sun. He lives with his girlfriend in Carrboro, North Carolina, and has two cats, both of whom seem to be more skilled at meditation than he is.

HEATHER SELLERS is the author of several poetry collections, a children’s book, and a short-story collection titled Georgia Under Water (Sarabande Books). She teaches creative writing at Hope College and lives in Holland, Michigan.

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

COLE THOMPSON is a photographer who raises llamas on a small ranch in Laporte, Colorado.

JERRY N. UELSMANN lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).

JANINE POMMY VEGA is the author of twenty books of poetry and prose. Her most recent book of poems is The Green Piano (Black Sparrow Books). She has performed her work — in English and Spanish, with and without music — at festivals, nightclubs, college campuses, and prisons. She lives in Bearsville, New York.

RENEÉ WATABE works in an emergency room as a patient advocate, and her hobbies include cultivating her butterfly garden and trying to replicate the cheese omelet she once tasted in Paris. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and can be found in the anthology Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), edited by Daniel Jones. A divorced mother of three, she lives in Verona, New Jersey.