ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

MARK BRAZAITIS is the author of An American Affair: Stories (Texas Review Press), which won the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Prize. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Morgantown, West Virginia, and prefers swimming, hiking, bike riding — just about any recreational activity — to golf.

GEOFF OLIVER BUGBEE has worked in more than twenty countries as a photojournalist, documenting such issues as hiv/aids and curable blindness. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MARSHA CLEARY got more serious about her photography after turning forty. She has worked as a nurse for eighteen years and lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Cruz, California.

ROBERT CURRAN’s bachelor’s degree in visual arts led him straight into construction; he is a concrete finisher by day and a photographer by night. He lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN’s photography books include Convergence, Among the Ashes, and Kutuuka. She has been taking photographs since she was three, when she took pictures of her stuffed bunny. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

ROBERTO GUERRA lives in La Paz, Bolivia, where he is working on a project about coca farmers.

ANN HUMPHREYS is a poet and professional hula-hooper. She occasionally sings country music at small venues in and around Carrboro, North Carolina, where she lives with her beloved dog and equally beloved boyfriend.

DIANE LEFER sometimes goes out in public dressed as a Guantánamo prisoner as a form of protest. Once, she found herself with her hands in the air and two guns pointed at her head after she was mistaken for a terrorist by the police. She is the author of the short-story collection California Transit (Sarabande Books) and collaborated with theater artist and therapist Hector Aristizábal on Nightwind, a play about his arrest and torture at the hands of the U.S.–supported military in Colombia. She lives in Los Angeles.

MILDRED JOYNER LONG is a photographer who lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

LEE ANN McGUIRE is a photographer who lives in Dover, Ohio.

JULIA McHUGH is the single mother of two daughters and lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

BONNIE J. ROUGH’s essays have appeared in the anthologies Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press) and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). She teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and walks around the neighborhood lake almost every day, no matter what the weather.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CHAD SIMPSON has been a security guard, an AmeriCorps volunteer, and a juvenile-probation officer. His stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Sycamore Review, and Georgetown Review. He lives in Galesburg, Illinois (birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg), and teaches fiction writing at Knox College.

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD’s essay in this issue is from his memoir, Something Is Wrong with Me, for which a publishing deal is in the works. In prison for robbing banks with a toy gun, he welcomes mail to break up the steady flow of irs complaints and magazine rejection letters. (Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box  CMC-6273, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409)