STEVEN AINSWORTH lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and works for the Environmental Protection Agency. Like Grandma Moses, he is embarking on a new career — photography — as he approaches his sixtieth birthday.

DANIELLE AUSTEN is a photojournalist, artist, and environmental advocate who lives in New Jersey.

ELLEN BASS’s poetry books include The Human Line and Mules of Love. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

BEAU BRASHARES is a Wall Street professional who began taking photographs on the streets of New York City after 9/11 as a way of working through the trauma. He lives in Manhattan.

MARK CHESTER’s photographs illustrate Charles Kuralt’s 1979 book Dateline America, and his forthcoming book of photographs is titled Twosomes. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

SYLVIA DE SWAAN was the founding director of Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, and is currently a visiting instructor at Hamilton College.

DAVID DENNY lives in Cupertino, California. When he isn’t teaching English at De Anza College, he can be found munching Good & Plenty in the balcony of the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto or sitting in Peet’s Coffee and Tea shop writing poems, some of which have appeared in Atlanta Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, and California Quarterly. It’s a rather dull life, he says, but he likes it that way.

DAVID JAMES DUNCAN is a lifelong loiterer along riverbanks and fiction-writing contemplative who lives in Montana. He is working on a novel that fuses his love for Asian wisdom traditions with the land and people of the American West.

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.

VIVÉ GRIFFITH lives in Austin, Texas, just five hundred feet from the so-called nafta superhighway. She directs the Free Minds Project, a free humanities course for low-income adults who haven’t been to college. “My students range in age from twenty-three to fifty-six,” she writes, “and they discuss Plato with gusto.”

JOHN OLIVER HODGES lives in Oxford, Mississippi. “I have always had a weakness for anyone on the sidelines,” he says, “anybody who is being ignored.”

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

GRACE MATTERN is the author of the poetry chapbook Fever of Unknown Origin (Oyster River Press) and the executive director of the New Hampshire Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence. She lives in an old farmhouse in Northwood, New Hampshire, and does much of her writing on the wraparound porch, when it’s warm enough.

MARGARET McMULLAN teaches creative writing at the University of Evansville and divides her time between Evansville, Indiana, and Pass Christian, Mississippi. She’s the author of five novels, including the upcoming Cashay (Houghton Mifflin). She’s currently completing a collection of stories about Hurricane Katrina.

JEFF PFLUEGER has traveled in Syria and Lebanon to cover the Iraqi refugee crisis as a photojournalist. He lives in Berkeley, California.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

BETHANY SALTMAN is a writer and editor who lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. She writes about religion, spirituality, and parenting for such magazines as Buddhadharma, Mothering, and Geez.

MELISSA SHOOK recently retired from teaching photography at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

SCOTT STOUGHTON is a carpenter and photographer living in Camden, Maine. His work has appeared in Shots.

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