AMANDA ALLEN regularly photographs music performances for Seattle radio station kexp. She can also be found bartending and watering her abundance of houseplants.

POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

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 lives in New York City.

DANE CERVINE lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he is chief of children’s mental health for his county. He found his calling when he quit his job at a tomato cannery and started working at a psychiatric hospital. His latest book of poetry is The Jeweled Net of Indra (Plain View Press).

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

MARTIN FISHMAN lives in Brooklyn, 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 sent the army a letter of resignation in 1969 and was visited soon after by army intelligence officers with a tape recorder. He later received a transcript of his interview that the army wanted him to sign. A San Francisco lawyer said his testimony was excellent — and that he should get out of town fast. Kowit and his wife spent the next several years in Mexico. He now lives in Potrero, California.

DAVID KUPFER lives in northern California, where he strives to reduce his carbon footprint. He is the creator of the Green Map for San Francisco: www.sfgreenmap.org.

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 lives in Sunnyside, New York. He recently received an e-mail from his ex-wife, with whom he had lost contact, after her daughter from another marriage told her, “That guy you used to be married to? I think he’s got a photo in The Sun.”

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 lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland. Her photographs have been published in Kalliope, Shots, and Antietam Review.

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 lives in Bakersfield, California.