RACHEL ABBOTT lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, and works as a photographer for a local pottery producer. Her work has appeared in Photographer’s Forum.

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.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) 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 is an environmental activist, biker, artist, Frisbee tosser, and culinary risk taker whose writing has appeared in Bay Nature, The Progressive, and Adbusters. He lives in Northern California, where he is working on three books, two screenplays, and one big garden.

ADRIE KUSSEROW lives with her husband and two children in Underhill Center, Vermont, and teaches cultural anthropology at St. Michael’s College. She recently traveled to Bhutan to teach media literacy.

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 is the author of two books of poetry: The Owl Question (Utah State University Press) and The Empty House (WordTech Communications). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Salamander, and the North American Review, and several of her poems have been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives with her husband and daughter in Baltimore, Maryland.

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 is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

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.