MARK BELAIR is a drummer and percussionist who has recorded with jazz greats Bill Evans and Joe Lovano and performed with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His poems are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Fulcrum, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He lives in New York City.

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).

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

JIM COLANDO taught high-school English for thirty years before devoting himself to photography full time. His work has been published in Shots, Shutterbug, and Photographer’s Forum. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

CHAR MARIE FLOOD’s photographs have been published on greeting cards as well as in Kalliope and Shots. She lives in Chicago.

REINHARD GORN is a commercial photographer, but he prefers to take pictures of strangers on city streets. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

KARI HAGA is in search of the smoothest river rock that water has ever produced. She lives in Billings, Montana.

ETHAN HUBBARD is the author of Salt Pork & Apple Pie (RavenMark), a collection of essays and photographs celebrating a disappearing generation of farmers, loggers, and others who live close to the land. He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria and has been taking photographs for sixty years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery and maintains Image Photos, an archive of more than a half-million pictures.

WAYNE KLAW has worked for the past thirty-six years as an airline pilot to support his family and his camera habit. He lives in Haddon Heights, New Jersey.

CHRIS KRESSER lives in Oakland, 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.

CHRISTI MARTIN lives in Ruston, Louisiana, where she is a student at Louisiana Tech University.

ASHLEY Y. MATTHEWS is a photography student who plans to get a master’s degree in counseling. She lives in Pineville, Louisiana.

RYAN PEREZ graduated from high school in 2007 and will study film at Full Sail University in Florida this fall. He lives in Stittville, New York.

CHRISTINA ROSALIE SBARRO, when not writing, teaching, or taking walks with her three-year-old son, can be found in her studio painting and drawing. Her writing has appeared in Mothering, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories. She lives in Jericho, Vermont.

SPARROW lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he does Sudoku and follows the Yankees. He is the author of America: A Prophecy (Soft Skull Press).

REBECCA SULLIVAN makes her living as a portrait and street photographer and is working on a project in Istanbul, Turkey. She lives with her two sons in Seattle, Washington.

JULIA TUCHMAN lives in New York City.

KATRINA VANDENBERG is the author of a poetry collection called Atlas (Milkweed Editions). She volunteers at the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis and lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they are restoring a 1920s bungalow.

LYNNE JAEGER WEINSTEIN’s photographs have been published in Orion, Parenting, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She lives in Putney, Vermont, where she likes to take pictures of people doing domestic chores.

MEGHAN WYNNE teaches English at Muskingum College and lives in the tiny town of New Concord, Ohio, where astronaut John Glenn was raised. (“It’s our only claim to fame,” she says, “and we never let anybody forget it.”) Her fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, and she is at work on a novel.