ANDREW BOYD is an author, humorist, and twenty-year veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He’s written two books of “serious humor” — Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book (both W.W. Norton) — and is at work on two more: one about the irony of travel when there’s no “elsewhere” anymore, and another about the “odd challenges men face in a post-feminist world.” He lives in New York City with his wee laptop.

MEGAN BUCHANAN CHERRY lives with her family in Prescott, Arizona. She was married in October 2008 after twelve years of single motherhood. The bride wore a bracelet of hummingbird feathers.

THOMAS CLARK is a photographer, writer, tennis player, and part-time recluse. He lives in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he spends his days taking care of his disabled mother.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of two books of photographs: Convergence and Among the Ashes (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

LESLEE GOODMAN lives in Santa Barbara, California, and is working with her husband to establish a sustainable farm on forty acres in north-central Washington, an endeavor she says the locals find highly entertaining.

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 works as a preschool teacher and is a student at California College of the Arts. He lives in Oakland, California.

LOIS JUDSON is a writer who lives in Vermont with her boyfriend and her neurotic cat. She is amazed to discover that getting sober has left her with writer’s block, so she spends her time quilting, gardening, and admiring the mushrooms that grow in her yard.

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

JANICE KREITZ lives and takes photographs in Akron, Ohio.

ALISON LUTERMAN is adjusting to domestic bliss, milking the chickens and harvesting the cactus with her beloved on their little homestead 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 lives in Sunnyside, New York. He recently received an e-mail from his ex-wife, with whom he had lost contact, after her daughter from another marriage told her, “That guy you used to be married to? I think he’s got a photo in The Sun.”

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.