DIANA HOOPER BLOOMFIELD lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she teaches photography. Although she holds a master’s degree in English literature and creative writing, these days she prefers to tell stories in images.

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.

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

GEORGE COLLIER learned photography from a Japanese man in the fifties and sixties. He lives with his wife and two cats in Richmond, Virginia.

DAVID COOK teaches peace studies at the University of Chattanooga and lives in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, with his wife and two children. An essay he wrote about his ninety-two-year-old grandfather will appear in the forthcoming anthology Wondrous: The Life Lessons, Challenges, and Joys of Grandparenting (North Atlantic).

SUSI EGGENBERGER likes to hike the hut-to-hut system in the White Mountains and float on Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park. She lives in Arundel, Maine.

ETHAN HUBBARD is the author of Salt Pork & Apple Pie (RavenMark), a collection of essays and photographs celebrating a disappearing generation of farmers, loggers, and others who live close to the land. He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.

CLEMENS KALISCHER was born in Bavaria, Germany, and has been taking photographs for more than sixty-five years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery.

ADRIE KUSSEROW lives with her husband and two children in Underhill Center, Vermont, and teaches cultural anthropology at St. Michael’s College. She recently traveled to Bhutan to teach media literacy.

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

TEDDY MACKER lives on an old farm in Carpinteria, California. His writing is forthcoming in Antioch Review, Court Green, and Poetry East.

BETH MAYER’s work has appeared in the Threepenny Review and the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. She performs with the organization TalkingImage Connection and teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. She lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.

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.

ROCHELLE SMITH is a librarian living in northern Idaho who is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. Her essay in this issue won first place in So to Speak’s 2006 nonfiction contest. She is currently working on a piece about black princesses and fairy tales.

MARTIN STEINGESSER lives in Portland, Maine, where he is the city’s first poet laureate. He has published a book of poems, Brothers of Morning (Deerbrook Editions), and a cd, The Thinking Heart, which is a performance piece in two voices and cello based on the writings of a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust.

MARILYN SZABO loves the water but lives in the desert of Phoenix, Arizona.

MORGAN TYREE photographs small-town high-school football, and his work has been published in Harper’s and Shots. He teaches graphic arts at Northwest College and lives in Powell, Wyoming.

CHRISTIAN ZWAHLEN’s writing has been published in Open City, and he is at work on a novel. He lives with his wife and two young children in an old house with a big front porch in Rochester, New York.