ROBERT ALEXANDER is a former newspaper editor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

KERRY DEEHAN lives in Oakland, California. Her photograph in this issue is her first published work, and she says, “I can’t stop gazing adoringly at my acceptance letter.”

BLAKE DIETERS moved from Colorado to Sarasota, Florida, and is still making the adjustment from pine trees to palm trees.

COMPTON GARDNER is the pseudonym of a writer who finds joy in chopping wood while listening to audio books.

LOIS JUDSON lives in New England, where she works with the elderly in their homes and is at war with her rooster.

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

DOUG RHINEHART’s first book of photographs is Desert Adagio (People’s Press). He is a retired community-college administrator and photography instructor who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

RICHARD ROBINSON’s work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and the Washington Post. He lives in Orange, Virginia.

CAROL SAMOUR’s photographs have been published in Potomac Review, Kalliope, and Shots. She lives with her husband and two cats in Germantown, Maryland.

HANNAH TENNANT-MOORE’s essays have appeared in the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Tricycle, and Turning Wheel. She is an mfa candidate in the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

COLE THOMPSON is a fine-art photographer living in northern Colorado. The subjects of his photographs range from the beaches of Oregon to the Nazi concentration camps of Poland. 

MARK VESUVIO was a rapper for fifteen years and worked with Eminem and the Black Eyed Peas. He is now a record producer living in Brooklyn, New York.

LOUANNE WATLEY lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her work is archived at the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have been published in the Carolina Quarterly, Calyx, and North Carolina Literary Review.

CYNTHIA WEINER lives in New York City, where she is assistant director of the Writers Studio. Her work has been published in epiphany, Open City, and Ploughshares and has won a Pushcart Prize. She is working on a collection of short stories.

DAVE WESTOVER is a freelance photographer and graphic designer who lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

JOE WILKINS is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and two collections of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward and Killing the Murnion Dogs. He lives with his wife and children in north Iowa. His most recent opponent on the basketball court was his two-year-old son; the contest involved no thrown elbows and lots of tickling.

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.