POE BALLANTINE does not need bifocals, he says, as he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose to read. He is the author of the true-crime book Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, due out in 2012, and the subject of the documentary Poe Ballantine, A Writer in America (copies of which can be purchased for $13.99, shipping included, from Al Saperstein, P.O. Box 111, Earleton, Florida, 32631). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

KRISTA BREMER works at The Sun and is writing a memoir. This summer her work will appear in MORE and O: The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and is currently in the market for a house that is cozy yet spacious, sunny yet private, and luxurious yet affordable. She plans to live there with her husband (stubborn yet forgiving), her kids (maddening yet irresistible), and her cat (aloof yet needy).

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 works as an editorial associate at The Sun. She moonlights slinging dough for her family-run business, Stone’s Throw Pizza, where she works with her husband, Seth, and her daughter, Ava, making artisan pizza in a traveling wood-fired oven.

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 the author of Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres, for which she received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a founding member of Point Blank, an experimental photography group in San Francisco.

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 has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

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 photographs small-town high-school football, and his work has been published in Harper’s and Shots. He teaches graphic arts at Northwest College and lives in Powell, Wyoming.

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.