PHIL ALDRICH was a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force before setting up a medical practice in Carson City, Nevada. He has been taking photographs for more than thirty years.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS’s latest book, a collection of aphorisms titled Hosanna, is forthcoming from Xenos Books. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is editor and chief director of VOX Press, a publisher of avant-garde writing. He is engaged to artist and songwriter Betsy Chapman and father to six-year-old goddess Simone.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

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.

DONNA CONNELL lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she grows basil and puts it in vases all over her house, just for the smell of it.

DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in Charlton Heights, West Virginia.

LONNY DANLER grew up living in hotels and motels owned and operated by his family. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

DAVID JAMES DUNCAN is a lifelong loiterer along riverbanks and fiction-writing contemplative who lives in Montana. He is working on a novel that fuses his love for Asian wisdom traditions with the land and people of the American West.

JEFF FEARNSIDE’s writing has appeared in Rosebud and the anthology A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (Peace Corps). He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

GARY GREEN is assistant professor of art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. His work has been published in Blind Spot and Words & Images.

ROY GUMPEL is a photographer, cinematographer, and volunteer firefighter in High Falls, New York. His favorite assignment was filming Route 66 for a National Geographic television documentary.

GARY HARWOOD is coauthor of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kent State University Press). He lives in Kent, Ohio.

TOM HAWKINS is the author of a short-story collection called Paper Crown (BkMk Press). He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

LAURA A. MUNSON’s writing has appeared in Big Sky Journal and Western Art and Architecture. She lives in Whitefish, Montana.

CATHERINE SALLEY is a northern Louisiana native who began taking photographs when she was eleven. She lives in Bossier City, Louisiana.

JAN SHOEMAKER’s work has appeared in the Rambler and on National Public Radio. She lives in Okemos, Michigan, with the two important males in her life: her husband, Larry, who builds her fires and pours her wine, and their golden retriever, Atticus, who keeps her warm on the couch.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MORGAN TYREE photographs small-town high-school football, and his work has been published in Harper’s and Shots. He teaches graphic arts at Northwest College and lives in Powell, Wyoming.

HIROSHI WATANABE made commercials for Japanese television for twenty years before he quit to devote himself full time to fine-art photography. He lives in West Hollywood, California.

CHRISTIAN ZWAHLEN’s writing has been published in Open City, and he is at work on a novel. He lives with his wife and two young children in an old house with a big front porch in Rochester, New York.