AMANDA ALLEN’s work has been published in Seattle Sound Magazine, and she regularly photographs musical performances for the radio station kexp in Seattle, Washington, where she lives.

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.

CYNTHIA BITTENFIELD lives in New York City.

BEAU BRASHARES is a Wall Street professional who began taking photographs on the streets of New York City after 9/11 as a way of working through the trauma. He lives in Manhattan.

AUSTIN BUNN is a native of New Jersey who now lives in the “horse country, bourbon country, country country” of Louisville, Kentucky. He is the Axton Fellow in Fiction at the University of Louisville and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and One Story.

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

DANE CERVINE is a therapist who directs the child and adolescent programs for Santa Cruz County, California. His poem “The Ukelele” was a finalist for the Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Competition.

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

MARTIN FISHMAN died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in New York.

JOHN FREE teaches documentary photojournalism with his son at Pasadena City College and Santa Monica College, and he has been commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to design a street-photography course for high-school students. He lives in Tujunga, California.

JAMES HANNIBAL’s work has appeared in CdA magazine and the Puck Review. He lives in Rathdrum, Idaho, and believes that one of the best times to take pictures is when the weather is at its worst.

NATE HOWARD recently traveled to Kosovo to take photographs. He lives in Austin, Minnesota.

MICHELE A. HUBBS’s photographs have been published in Shots. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she consumes chocolate in criminal quantities.

ZANE KOTKER lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is about to leave for Morocco despite an astrological forecast of big trouble. Her most recent novel is Try to Remember (Random House).

STEVE KOWIT likes to point out that, although people don’t think writers earn much money, he and the nation’s leading romance novelist earn a combined income of approximately $60 million a year. He lives in California with his beloved wife, six cats, and two dogs.

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.

MARGARET LUCKEY-HELENIUS works half the year as a private cook and spends the other half traveling and taking photographs. She lives in Mastic Beach, New York.

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.

JOHN McDERMOTT began his career as a photojournalist for the Associated Press but now primarily takes fine-art photographs of nudes. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.

JACK PARIS is the pseudonym of a writer and full-time house painter who lives in California but grew up in Hawaii and still thinks of it as “home.”

EDWIN ROMOND was a high-school English teacher for thirty-two years and is now a visiting author in Pennsylvania and New Jersey schools. His latest book of poems is Dream Teaching (Grayson Books). 

CAROL SAMOUR’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review, Kalliope, and Shots. She lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland.

DANA WILDSMITH teaches English as a second language to adults. She is the author of four books of poetry and lives in Bethlehem, Georgia, where she works to preserve her 125-year-old family farm in the midst of encroaching development.

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.