RACHEL ABBOTT is a photographer who believes she was a fish in a past life. She lives in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

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.” 

RITA BERNSTEIN is a former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

MARSHALL CLARKE’s photographs have appeared in Photographer’s Forum and the Photo Review. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

CYBELLE CODISH is a photographer who lives in Clawson, Michigan.

LARRY COLKER’s poetry has been published in the Cortland Review and the Los Angeles Review. He is the managing editor of the online magazines Speechless and Poetix and has cohosted a weekly poetry reading in Los Angeles for nine years. He lives in San Pedro, California.

PEG DÍAZ is a photographer who lives in Barstow, California.

MICHELE HERMAN’s writing has been published in Another Chicago Magazine and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art as well as her local paper, the Villager. She teaches writing online through the Writers Studio in New York City, where she, her husband, and two sons live and use their bicycles as their primary mode of transportation.

DAVID KUPFER’s writing has appeared in Whole Earth, Yes!, and the Progressive. He lives in San Rafael, California, and is spending the winter sowing seeds, planting trees, and turning compost.

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.

AHARON LEVY’s father was in the U.S. Foreign Service, and as a child Levy lived in Romania, Tanzania, and Malta. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Opium Magazine and Lullwater Review, and he is working full time on a screenplay. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TOBY MALOY is a photographer who lives in Carnation, Washington.

COURTNEY E. MARTIN is the author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body (Free Press). She is currently assisting Marvelyn S. Brown, a twenty-three-year-old AIDS activist, with her memoir, to be published later this year. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MICHELLE MASSON is a school nurse who loves music and takes photographs only because she cannot sing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

JOHN ROSENTHAL lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His book of photographs is called Regarding Manhattan (Safe Harbor Books).

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

FAITH SHEARIN has had jobs teaching high-school English, interviewing elk hunters, and reading tea leaves. She is the author of a book of poems titled The Owl Question (Utah State University Press), and her second book, The Empty House, is forthcoming from Word Press. She and her family divide their time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

HELEN M. STUMMER is the author of No Easy Walk, Newark, 1980-1993 (Temple University Press). As a photographer she has been documenting the lives of the poor for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Metuchen, New Jersey.

COLE THOMPSON’s photographs have been published in Focus, Popular Photography, and Photo Life. He manages private vocational colleges for a living and raises llamas at his ranch in Laporte, Colorado.

EDWIN TOONE is an official photographer for Paradise Weekend, a bike-messenger race in Barcelona, Spain, where he lives with his wife.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.