ANDREW BOYD is the author of Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book and is finishing work on Pilgrimage to Nowhere, a travelogue of his skeptic’s journey around the world. He cofounded Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning “subvertising” agency, and for a decade led the satirical media campaign Billionaires for Bush. He lives in New York City.

MEGAN BUCHANAN CHERRY lives with her family in southern Vermont.

THOMAS CLARK is a part-time photographer, writer, tennis player, and recluse. He lives in St. Albans, New York.

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.

LESLEE GOODMAN is a freelance writer, an artist, and a consultant to nonprofits. She divides her time between Washington State’s Methow Valley and Santa Barbara, California.

JESSICA HALLIDAY lives in Spokane, Washington, and teaches composition at Gonzaga University. She’s written four novels, all of which are sitting in boxes in her closet.

IRA J. HAWKINS is a student at California College of the Arts and a preschool teacher. He lives in Oakland, California.

LOIS JUDSON lives in New England, where she works with the elderly in their homes and is at war with her rooster.

GINA KELLY is a photographer living in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

JANICE KREITZ lives and takes photographs in Akron, Ohio.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

WILLIAM LYCHACK has a three-year-old son and a set of one-year-old twins, all of whom make sleep and showering feel like indulgent hobbies. He is the author of a novel, The Wasp Eater (Mariner Books), and a forthcoming collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers, and is a member of the mfa faculty at Lesley University in Massachusetts.

MICHELLE MASSON is a school nurse who loves music and takes photographs only because she cannot sing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

GARY MATSON once appeared on television in New Orleans, Louisiana, dancing under the stars, wearing one orange and one yellow sneaker. He lives in Sunnyside, New York.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JANE SASSER grew up on a North Carolina farm and still expects late-night phone calls announcing that her cows are wandering loose (and perhaps they are, metaphorically speaking). She has a poetry chapbook, Recollecting the Snow (March Street Press), and lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

SHARON SELIGMAN lives in Spicewood, Texas, with a menagerie of pets. Her photo essay about breast cancer, Bearing Witness, was sponsored by Blue Earth Alliance (www.blueearth.org).

CONNIE SPRINGER has three adopted children and would like someday to produce a coffee-table book on adult adoptees. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, but dreams of moving to a small city on the coast along with all her best friends.

SUSAN RAE TANNENBAUM is a wedding photographer who recently started making lampwork glass beads for love and money. She lives in New York City.

CARY TENNIS lives in San Francisco and writes a weekly advice column for Salon.com. In the 1980s he played in the rock band the Repeat Offenders. A collection of his columns, Since You Asked: The Best of Salon.com’s Cary Tennis, is available in stores and through his website.

KAREN TWEEDY-HOLMES works as an editor so that she doesn’t have to photograph lipstick or salad to pay the rent. She lives in New York City and devotes one day each weekend to a palomino quarter horse named Lucky, though she insists that she’s the lucky one.

JOHN WEHRHEIM’s photographs are featured in the documentary film Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness. He lives in Lihue, Hawaii.