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

ANNA BLACKSHAW is a writer and documentary photographer who lives in North Carolina.

LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS’s latest book, a collection of aphorisms titled Hosanna, is forthcoming from Xenos Books. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is editor and chief director of VOX Press, a publisher of avant-garde writing. He is engaged to artist and songwriter Betsy Chapman and father to six-year-old goddess Simone.

ERICA BURKHART is a romantic scientist with a love of the natural world. She lives in Portland, Maine, and her work has been shown at the Space Gallery there.

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.

JANE CHURCHON lives in Sacramento, California, where she works as a nursing supervisor, though lately she’s been hankering for ramen noodles and peanut butter and is considering going to graduate school to ensure a steady diet of them. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review and American River Review.

JOSEPH DUEMER lives in a hamlet in the foothills of New York’s Adirondack Mountains. His most recent book of poems is Magical Thinking (Ohio State University Press). This spring he will head to Vietnam to interview poets and collect poems for translation. He is embarrassed by his dilatory work habits but greatly comforted in his sloth by his three Jack Russell terriers and a chocolate lab named Angel.

MARTIN FISHMAN died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in New York.

KAYO LACKEY was born and raised in Japan and has lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1997.

LYN LIFSHIN’s books of poetry include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (both Texas Review Press), and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press). She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.

LINDA McCULLOUGH MOORE is doing headstands and sending up flares to herald the publication of her new collection of stories, This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon, a book that she says comes highly recommended by the author. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

YEHOSHUA NOVEMBER lives in Morristown, New Jersey, with his wife and three children and teaches composition at Rutgers University and Touro College. His poem in this issue is dedicated to his grandparents, who passed away years apart, but on the same day of the Hebrew calendar — a fact he sees as symbolic of their unique connection.

LICHEN RICHARDSON is named after a composite organism consisting of a fungus and an algae living in symbiotic association. She took her first photograph at the age of three (with the help of her father) and has had a camera in her hands ever since. She lives in Shandaken, New York.

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is trying to simultaneously learn Finnish, Hungarian, and Japanese.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

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.

MARY ZELINKA works at the Center against Rape and Domestic Violence in Corvallis, Oregon. If she could take her friends and job with her, she’d move to the coast and walk on the beach every day no matter what the weather. Her writing has appeared in Calyx, Open Spaces, and Out of Line.

NICHOLAS ZELINKA was a pilot for Eastern Airlines from 1942 until his retirement in 1976. He died in January 2008.