ROBERT ALEXANDER lives in Ormond Beach, Florida, and is an editor at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. His photographs have been published in Time, Parade, and the New York Times. He says he’d like to be a writer, but he finds photography easier: “I take pictures of people and places I would write about, if I were better at it.”

ROY ARENELLA lives in New York City, where he worked in social services for thirty years. His photography has been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice.

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.” 

STEWART BRINTON is an American expatriate living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he practices his saxophone every day.

KEVIN BUBRISKI takes photographs both in faraway locations and in his hometown of Shaftsbury, Vermont.

WILLIAM CARTER plays the clarinet and chairs the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. His new book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, will be published by Steidl in 2010. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s photographs have been published in Dissent, Witness, and the Boston Globe. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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

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

JOHN HODGEN is the author of the poetry collection Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press). He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and is a visiting assistant professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

THOMAS HYDE owned and edited a small community newspaper for a decade before selling it to pursue his passions, one of which is photography. He lives on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula with his wife, Sue.

MICHAEL KANE lives in San Francisco.

KATHRYN KEFAUVER’s recently completed, unpublished memoir, The Mother of Water, is set in Maryland and Laos, where she worked for two years for the United Nations Development Programme. She lives in Berkeley, California, and her work has appeared in Gettysburg Review and the Christian Science Monitor.

DANUSHA LAMÉRIS eats sushi, paints watercolors, and writes poems in Santa Cruz, California, where she lives with her husband, Armando.

GARY L. LARK has been a carpenter, a janitor, a salesman, and a librarian — a children’s librarian for eleven years and a prison librarian for two. His latest book of poetry is Men at the Gates (Finishing Line Press). He lives with his wife in Coos Bay, Oregon.

R.A. McBRIDE is working on a book of photographs about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ANNA MILLS lives in Menlo Park, California, and writes book reviews at www.onnaturewriting.blogspot.com. She will give a dramatic recitation of Robert Service’s poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” for any audience that can endure it.

LOGAN MOCK-BUNTING’s photographs have been published in the New York Times, USA Today, and National Geographic Adventure. He lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, where he surfs and feeds the sea gulls.

MADELINE OSTRANDER is a writer, activist, and researcher of environmental policy. She lives in Seattle, Washington, where she is senior editor of YES! magazine.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CINDY SCHWARTZ is an American who has lived in London for twenty years and can drive exceptionally well on both sides of the road.

EVA SILVERMAN lives in Oakland, California. She works for the nonprofit Workplace Fairness and credits her passion for workers’ rights to her punk-rock roots and her grandma Gladys, who worked in New York City sweatshops as a girl.

ELANA ZAIMAN is a rabbi and writer whose work has been published in Post Road, American Letters and Commentary, and Calyx. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

GENIE ZEIGER recently began singing international music in a chorus. Her book What Happened Was . . . : Writing Memoir and Personal Essay is forthcoming in 2009 from White Pine Press. She lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts.