ELLERY AKERS lives on the northern California coast and is the author of the poetry collection Knocking on the Earth (Wesleyan University Press) as well as a children’s novel, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story about Sexual Abuse (Safer Society Press).

ROY ARENELLA’s work has been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

POE BALLANTINE’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He lives in Chadron, Nebraska, where he is a school custodian. He says, “It feels good to be back in education.” 

ELLEN BASS’s poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press) and Mules of Love (BOA Editions). She teaches in the mfa writing program at Pacific University.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

STEPHEN DATNOFF likes to fix broken things, Victorian houses in particular. He lives in Hood River, Oregon.

DANIEL DONAGHY is the author of two poetry collections: Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas Press) and Streetfighting (BkMk Press). He lives in Willington, Connecticut, where he is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University and a blissfully mediocre fly fisherman.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the author of Kutuuka (Yellow Bird Press), a collection of photographs and drawings of and by the children at Saint Mary Kevin Orphanage in Uganda. Proceeds from sales of the book go to the orphanage through the Change the Truth Fund.

ARVIND GARG lives in New York City. He came to the U.S. in 1976 from India to study English literature but fell in love with photography instead. His work is represented by Corbis and Getty.

PETER INGRASSELINO lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and works as a registered nurse in a dialysis clinic, where he makes gifts of his photographs to his patients.

MEG KEARNEY is author of a novel in verse, The Secret of Me (Persea Books), as well as two poetry collections: An Unkindness of Ravens (BOA Editions) and the forthcoming Home by Now (Four Way Books). She is the director of the Solstice mfa program at Pine Manor College and lives in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, with her three-legged black Lab, Trooper.

MARJORIE KEMPER is the author of the novel Until That Good Day (Thomas Dunne Books). Her writing is inspired by the landscapes she traveled with her geographer father: small towns, fishing camps, rural black and Cajun communities, and Texas oil and timber towns. She lives in Glendale, California.

CHRIS KOGUT donates proceeds from her photography to humanitarian efforts in Myanmar and to refugee-resettlement programs in Rochester, New York, where she lives.

SOLIMAN LAWRENCE lives in Berlin, Germany, and regularly travels to Poland to document the renewal of Jewish culture there.

GAUTAM NARANG’s work has been published in National Geographic, and he lives in London.

DAWN PAUL is the editor of Corvid Press, and her novel The Country of Loneliness will be published by Marick Press in 2009. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.

ROBERT PEAK lives in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. His love of photography began in the 1990s on a four-year bicycle tour he and his wife took through Europe, Africa, Asia, New Zealand, and North America.

ROGER PFINGSTON taught English and photography for thirty years. One of his worst habits is thinking too much about the future, earning him the nickname “the great anticipator.” He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

BARBARA PLATEK is a Jungian psychotherapist and author who lives with her family on the outskirts of Ithaca, New York.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

DEBRA SUGERMAN is a photographer and filmmaker from Austin, Texas.

MORGAN TYREE, who lives in Powell, Wyoming, rode with and photographed a trucker for eight thousand miles through twenty states last summer. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly and Referee. He is seeking a book publisher for his photographs of high-school football.

JERRY N. UELSMANN lives in Gainesville, Florida. His most recent book of photographs is Other Realities (Bulfinch Press).