ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

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

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

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

ALAN DAVIS grew up in Louisiana, where, according to a sign in front of  Poche’s Market, “everything on a hog is good.” He now lives in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he teaches in the mfa program at Minnesota State University and serves as senior editor of New Rivers Press. He is the author of two story collections, Rumors from the Lost World and Alone with the Owl (both New Rivers Press), and has recently completed a third.

SUSI EGGENBERGER likes to hike the hut-to-hut system in the White Mountains and float on Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park. She lives in Arundel, Maine.

ANDREW E. ESCHBACHER travels the U.S. to photograph the “discarded buildings of America’s past.” He lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN’s photography books include Convergence, Among the Ashes, and Kutuuka. She has been taking photographs since she was three, when she took pictures of her stuffed bunny. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

MARTHA GIES is the author of Up All Night (Oregon State University Press). She teaches creative writing in Veracruz, Mexico, and in Portland, Oregon, where she lives.

KARI HAGA is a graphic designer by day and an artist by night. She lives in Billings, Montana.

TAMA HOCHBAUM is an artist and photographer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is represented by George Lawson Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

VALERIE HURLEY was once a secretary who answered children’s mail to Dr. Seuss. She is the author of St. Ursula’s Girls against the Atomic Bomb (Plume) and lives in Charlotte, Vermont.

R.A. McBRIDE is the author of Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres, for which she received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a founding member of Point Blank, an experimental photography group in San Francisco.

LAURA NOEL dislikes being photographed but endures it so as not to be hypocritical. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

JOHN POCH’s latest poetry collection is titled Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line Press), and he recently finished a short-story collection for which he is seeking a publisher. He lives in Lubbock, Texas.

MARC POLONSKY lives in Camp Meeker, California, and cohosts a radio show on kows in Occidental called Commanders of the Airwaves.

WILLIAM POWERS is living in a village in Bolivia. He is the author of Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia’s War on Globalization (Bloomsbury USA).

JOHN ROSENTHAL lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His book of photographs is called Regarding Manhattan (Safe Harbor Books).

RICHARD C. RUSSELL is a member of PhotoZone, a fine-art photography co-op in Eugene, Oregon. He lives in nearby Florence and is fascinated by the winter storms off the Pacific Northwest’s coast.

CHRISTINE SAARI lives in Marquette, Michigan, and spends springs on her family farm in Austria, where she was born.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MARK SMITH-SOTO is the director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the longtime editor of International Poetry Review. His most recent book of poetry is Any Second Now, and he translated Fever Season: Selected Poetry of Ana Istarú.

THEA SULLIVAN likes to play her 1965 Epiphone acoustic guitar and dreams about singing in a bluegrass band. She teaches writing in San Francisco.

COLE THOMPSON is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland.