ANDREW BOYD is the author of Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book and is finishing work on Pilgrimage to Nowhere, a travelogue of his skeptic’s journey around the world. He cofounded Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning “subvertising” agency, and for a decade led the satirical media campaign Billionaires for Bush. He lives in New York City.

NICK CARPENTIERI is an avid traveler who likes to take the occasional photograph. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

MEGAN BUCHANAN CHERRY lives with her family in southern Vermont.

JANE CHURCHON lives in Sacramento, California, where she works as a nursing supervisor, though lately she’s been hankering for ramen noodles and peanut butter and is considering going to graduate school to ensure a steady diet of them. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review and American River Review.

RALPH A. HUGHES is a poet, cellist, great-grandfather, and former sheep farmer. He lives in Oakham, Massachusetts.

DALE S. JEWETT’s father gave him a camera when he was fourteen, and he has been taking photographs ever since. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

ANDREW LAWLER is a displaced Southerner living in rural Maine whose writing has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Science. When not practicing serenity at airport baggage carousels, he’s learning to accept black flies and use a chain saw. 

PAT MacENULTY’s most recent book is Wait until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a roommate, a blind cat, and two electric pianos. She teaches writing at Johnson & Wales University, a school known for its culinary college, but she still can’t cook. She blogs on writing at www.transformativewriting.blogspot.com.

GARY MATSON once appeared on television in New Orleans, Louisiana, dancing under the stars, wearing one orange and one yellow sneaker. He lives in Sunnyside, New York.

JACQUELINE MOREAU is a photographer who works as a special-education teacher during the school year and as a fire lookout at a national forest during the summer. She lives in White Salmon, Washington, with her son, a horse, a cat, and chickens that lay blue-green eggs.

ANGELA RYDELL lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and teaches poetry in the University of Wisconsin’s continuing-studies department. She has played drums in both a punk band and the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. Her poetry has been published in Poets & Writers, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

J.T. THOMAS’s photographs have been published in the New York Times and National Geographic Adventure. He divides his time between New York City and Paonia, Colorado, where he and his wife grow heirloom tomatoes and seventeen acres of hay.

KEVIN THOMAS ekes out a living as a photographer in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

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. 

JERRY N. UELSMANN’s most recent book of photographs is The Mind’s Eye, and his work is in the permanent collections of art museums worldwide. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

LEAH VINLUAN has taken photographs in Nepal, India, Japan, Korea, and Morocco. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ALISON WRIGHT’s photographs have been published in National Geographic Traveler, Time, Outside, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She is the author of three books of photographs, including The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile (Snow Lion Publications). She lives in San Francisco.

RACHEL YODER lives in Iowa City, Iowa. She recently graduated from the nonfiction-writing program at the University of Iowa and now writes about shoes for Nordstrom. Her piece “Some Really Disgusting Essays about Love” is forthcoming in YOU: An Anthology of Essays in the Second Person.