ERIC ANDERSON lives with his family in Elyria, Ohio. He says, “The pronunciation of ‘Elyria’ is a cross between ‘delirium’ and ‘malaria,’ which is a pretty fitting description of August in 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 plays the clarinet and chairs the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. His new book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, will be published by Steidl in 2010. 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 is the author of two books of photographs: Convergence and Among the Ashes (both Yellow Bird Press). 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 is adjusting to domestic bliss, milking the chickens and harvesting the cactus with her beloved on their little homestead in Oakland, California. 

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

JULIA McHUGH is a transcriber, a part-time nanny, and a single mother to two daughters. She 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 lives in Bakersfield, California.

SAINT JAMES HARRIS WOOD is the father of three perfect sons. He has worked in radio, construction, and at a pineapple factory. While traveling with his band, the Saint James Catastrophe, he picked up the heroin-smoking habit, which led to prison. Correspondence can be sent to: Saint James Harris Wood T30027, P.O. Box 8103, CMC East-6223, San Luis Obispo, CA 93409.