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.” 

KRISTA BREMER lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband and two children and works at The Sun. She dedicates her essay in this issue to her eight-year-old daughter, who toasted her parents’ belated wedding last year by saying: “I feel very lucky to be able to see my parents get married. Most kids don’t get to do that!”

KEVIN BUBRISKI takes photographs both in faraway locations and in his hometown of Shaftsbury, Vermont.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

K.E. DUFFIN lives at Inkspot, an artists’ cooperative built on the site of a 1998 ink-factory explosion in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her first book of poems is called King Vulture (University of Arkansas Press).

RACHEL J. ELLIOTT prefers nondigital cameras: her trusty Canon AE-1, her Holga, and, most recently, a Mamiya C330. She is an editorial associate at The Sun and lives with her husband and six-year-old daughter in Carrboro, North Carolina.

MORGAN FRITH bought her first camera in the tenth grade and took photographs of children playing Little League baseball, which she then sold to their parents. She lives in Rayville, Louisiana.

MICHAEL HETTICH’s most recent chapbook, Many Loves, won the 2007 Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest, and a new collection, Like Happiness, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press. For the past five years he has worked with his son on a poetry-music collaboration, samples of which can be found on his website. He lives in Miami, Florida.

DERRICK JENSEN’s most recent book is titled As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Crescent City, California.

CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ owns a window-cleaning company in Clintondale, New York. His photographs have been published in the journals American Photo and Shots and the book NYC: Life Going On (Syracuse University Press).

R.A. McBRIDE is working on a book of photographs about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

VARLEY O’CONNOR lives in a suburban neighborhood in Stow, Ohio, where she walks her Burmese cat, Tadeu Jiro, on a leash. She is the author of The Cure (Bellevue Literary Review Press) and teaches writing at Kent State University.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

KEITH SHARP is a photographer who teaches art in public elementary schools. He lives with approximately sixty pet finches in Media, Pennsylvania.

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).

GORDON STETTINIUS is an artist, teacher, and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. His work has been exhibited in New York City, the Netherlands, and Seattle, Washington.

DEBRA SUGERMAN is a photographer and filmmaker from Austin, Texas.

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.

LEAH VINLUAN has taken photographs in Nepal, India, Japan, Korea, and Morocco. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

STEPHANIE WILLIAMSON is a photographer, writer, and mother of two teenage boys. She lives in Alameda, California, and teaches photography at City College of San Francisco.