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 was raised in the Bronx and now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he will spend the summer gardening, grilling, and golfing. He won a Pushcart Prize in 2008 and is currently working on a memoir called Little Red Love Machine.

JAMES CARROLL lives in New York City.

GEORGE COLLIER sings in a choir and lives with his wife and their two cats in Richmond, Virginia.

DAVID COOK lives with his wife and two small children in a cabin in Walden, Tennessee, and teaches high-school courses on democracy, justice, and American history in nearby Chattanooga. He is working on a biography of a Gregorian monk who lives and works among the urban homeless.

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 and has been taking photographs for sixty years. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery and maintains Image Photos, an archive of more than a half-million pictures.

ADRIE KUSSEROW is a cultural anthropologist who lives in Underhill Center, Vermont, with her husband and two children. She is the author of a book of poems, Hunting Down the Monk (BOA Editions), and is working on a second collection, about her time in Sudan.

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 from Trinidad and Tobago, has traveled to Scotland four times, and currently lives in Moscow, Idaho. She dedicates her essay in this issue to her grandmother, who recently passed away at the age of ninety-seven.

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’s photographs are in the collections of Arizona State University and Phoenix College. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

CHRISTIAN ZWAHLEN’s short stories have appeared in Open City. He lives with his family in Rochester, New York, and is currently at work on a novel.