DANIEL AMONI is a woodworker, photographer, and father — and the only person he knows who always carries a tape measure, a camera, and diapers. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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

KRISTA BREMER works at The Sun and is writing a memoir. This summer her work will appear in MORE and O: The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and is currently in the market for a house that is cozy yet spacious, sunny yet private, and luxurious yet affordable. She plans to live there with her husband (stubborn yet forgiving), her kids (maddening yet irresistible), and her cat (aloof yet needy).

AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY is originally from the Bronx but now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he is working on a childhood memoir called Little Red Love Machine.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MORGAN CAUFIELD died in February 2010 at the age of fifty-four. She worked with developmentally disabled children in Sebastopol, California.

NANCY CRUTE is a full-time social worker who assists Parkinson’s-disease patients. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

JENNIFER ESPERANZA’s photographs have been published in the New York Times, and she has self-published a book, Tears of Venus: It’s All the Goddess to Me, on Blurb.com. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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.

HAROLD FEINSTEIN’s photographs are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the George Eastman House. Bulfinch Press has published six books of his work, including One Hundred Flowers and The Infinite Rose. He lives in Merrimac, Massachusetts.

KAREN LANDMANN speaks twelve languages, including Sranan Tongo, the creole language of Suriname. She lives in New York City.

JEANNE LOHMANN has published eight collections of poetry and two books of prose, including Dancing in the Kitchen: A Prose Collection (Fithian Press) and Calls from a Lighted House: Poems (Daniel & Daniel Publishers). At nearly eighty-six, she relishes walks through her Olympia, Washington, neighborhood and remains active in the local poetry community.

CHARITY NEAL lives with her husband and their three young children in Conway, Arkansas.

KRISTY RALSTON considers herself lucky that she gets paid to photograph children.

AMANDA REA lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she’s the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review, and Indiana Review. Her father, whose songwriting is described in her essay in this issue, will release his second album this summer (www.bobreamusic.com).

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

RON TERNER teaches photography at his own Focal Point Gallery in City Island, New York, where he lives with his family.

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.

SAM WILSON lives in northern California, where he sells bicycle parts for a living and is an mfa candidate in the low-residency program at Queens University of Charlotte. His fiction has been recently published or is forthcoming in Connecticut Review, Cold Mountain Review, Canteen, and Red Cedar Review. 

ANGELA WINTER keeps finding those twenty pounds she lost. When not working at The Sun, she pores through cookbooks, obsesses over her cilantro-cashew chutney, and searches for the perfect tempeh reuben. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, but dreams of returning to Paris — for the falafel in the Marais district.