ROBERT ALEXANDER is a former newspaper editor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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

POE BALLANTINE does not need bifocals, he says, as he slides his glasses to the tip of his nose to read. He is the author of the true-crime book Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, due out in 2012, and the subject of the documentary Poe Ballantine, A Writer in America (copies of which can be purchased for $13.99, shipping included, from Al Saperstein, P.O. Box 111, Earleton, Florida, 32631). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.

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’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.

KATHRYN KEFAUVER GOLDBERG’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Gettysburg Review. She has traveled to Australia, China, and Laos, and now live with her husband and a chipper Bichon puppy in Berkeley, California, where she is working on a memoir.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in Art Forum and The New York Times and is represented in public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

KARI HAGA is a graphic designer by day and an artist by night. 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 a small community newspaper for a decade before selling it to pursue writing and photography. He lives with his wife on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.

MICHAEL KANE lives in San Francisco.

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 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.

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 and Outside. He lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

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 has been playing third base on softball teams since she was eight years old. She lives in Oakland, California.

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 was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.