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 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 was born in Bavaria and has been taking photographs for sixty years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery and maintains Image Photos, an archive of more than a half-million pictures.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, 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 is a cultural anthropologist who lives in Underhill Center, Vermont, with her husband and two children. She is the author of a book of poems, Hunting Down the Monk (BOA Editions), and is working on a second collection, about her time in Sudan.

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

MARGARET McMULLAN teaches creative writing at the University of Evansville and divides her time between Evansville, Indiana, and Pass Christian, Mississippi. She’s the author of five novels, including the upcoming Cashay (Houghton Mifflin). She’s currently completing a collection of stories about Hurricane Katrina.

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 lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland. Her photographs have been published in Kalliope, Shots, and Antietam Review.

LUC SAUNDERS is editorial associate 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 lives in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas. His photographs have been published in B&W, Focus, and Photo Life.

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.