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 former civil-rights lawyer who fantasizes about being a veterinarian or a neuroscientist. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS teaches writing and philosophy at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and is editor and founder of VOX Press. His most recent book is The Animal: Prose Poetics (BlazeVOX).

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 lives in New York City.

MEGAN BUCHANAN CHERRY lives with her family in Prescott, Arizona. She was married in October 2008 after twelve years of single motherhood. The bride wore a bracelet of hummingbird feathers.

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 was born in Wabash, Indiana, the first electrically lighted city in the world and the hometown of singer Crystal Gayle. He wishes he had even a fraction of her hair. He lives with his family in Douglasville, Georgia.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in his hometown of 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 father, a renowned fly fisherman, and a practitioner of what he calls “direct, small-scale compassion-activism.” He lives in Montana and is at work on a novel titled Eastern Western, which attempts to reconcile his western boots and Eastern books.

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 wrote a song called “Throw Your Shoe at G.W.” for a local inaugural-night bash. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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, who lives in Powell, Wyoming, rode with and photographed a trucker for eight thousand miles through twenty states last summer. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly and Referee. He is seeking a book publisher for his photographs of high-school football.

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 short stories have appeared in Open City. He lives with his family in Rochester, New York, and is currently at work on a novel.