PATRICIA BRIESCHKE’s writing has been included in the anthologies Best American Essays 2008 (Houghton Mifflin) and Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2 (W.W. Norton & Co.). It used to be that when she grew restless or dissatisfied, she moved to a new apartment and made a major life change. Now she rearranges the furniture in a house fifty miles north of New York City.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

BEVERLY CONLEY’s photographs have been published in Native Peoples, La Fotografia Actual, and Black & White Photography. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of London and the New York Public Library. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

ARNIE COOPER wonders if teaching English as a second language is affecting his speaking ability: he often lapses into foreign accents without realizing it. Luckily his writing remains unscathed — or, at least, his editors are being polite. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.

STEVE DONOSO is the director of the International Film Festival of the Spirit. He lives in Rockland, Maine.

CHRISTINA FITZPATRICK teaches at Brooklyn College and is the author of the short-story collection Where We Lived (Harper Perennial) and the novel What’s the Girl Worth? (HarperCollins). She never got her driver’s license, for which some of her friends belittle her, but she prefers to believe she’s saving lives. (“I have poor hand-eye coordination and space out frequently.”) She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

DUNCAN GREEN recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.

STEVEN GREGORY is a software project manager who has found a creative outlet in photography. He takes pictures of friends’ weddings and has displayed his work in galleries in San Francisco, where he lives.

ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

MATT KOLLASCH is a photographer living in Warsaw, Poland.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

ALEXIS MANN has degrees in public policy and photography, and she recently graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Her photographs focus on the personal stories behind complex social issues. She lives in Topsham, Maine.

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.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JENNY WARBURG’s photographs have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Time. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

LAURA ESTHER WOLFSON’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alembic, the Cimarron Review, and the Rambler. At various times she has been a serious student of Georgian, Latin, and Yiddish and is now learning Spanish. She lives in one room on the banks of the Hudson River in New York City.