CARA BLUE ADAMS’s writing has appeared in Willow Springs and won the Kenyon Review 2008 Short Fiction Prize. She says, “My father wanted my first name to be Blue, but cooler heads prevailed.” She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she is the managing editor of the Southern Review.

AMANDA ALLEN’s work has been published in Seattle Sound Magazine, and she regularly photographs musical performances for the radio station kexp in Seattle, Washington, where she lives.

TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

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

RICHARD CHIAPPONE worked in the trades for forty years before he damaged his neck vertebrae, forcing him to retire. He says, “Now my wife works all day, and I stay home and write, cook elaborate meals, bake bread, and wish I could put my hard hat back on and work construction again.” He is the author of the story collections Water of an Undetermined Depth (Stackpole Books) and Opening Day, which will be published in 2010 by Barclay Creek Press. He lives near Homer, Alaska, and teaches at Kenai Peninsula College and in the University of Alaska’s creative-writing mfa program.

DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.

PETER J. CROWLEY lives in Norwich, Connecticut.

KATIE DELAVAUGHN was a Peace Corps volunteer with her husband for three years in Nicaragua, where she learned how to make guava jelly, dance the palo de mayo, and swim like a mermaid. She lives in the Bronx, New York.

JOHN FREE teaches documentary photojournalism with his son at Pasadena City College and Santa Monica College, and he has been commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to design a street-photography course for high-school students. He lives in Tujunga, California.

LAUREN FUTRELL has trouble throwing things away, a problem that leads to “colorful clutter.” She is working toward an art-teaching license and lives with her two German shepherds, Roxy and Rudee, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

LESLEE GOODMAN is a freelance writer, an artist, and a consultant to nonprofits. She divides her time between Washington State’s Methow Valley and Santa Barbara, California.

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.

CAROLINE KRAUS is the author of Borderlines: A Memoir (Broadway) and a contributing writer for PBS.org. She lives in Mill Valley, California.

TOM SUNDRO LEWIS used to make furniture but now makes photographs. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

SHERMAN PEARL traded a career in journalism for one in poetry, and his awards include the 2002 National Writers Union Prize, the 2008 Anderbo Award, and the 2009 Margie Review Editor’s Prize. He is cofounder of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and his most recent book is Profanities (Conflux Press). He lives in Santa Monica, California.

JIM RALSTON was raised on a farm in upstate Michigan, when there was still a taste of wilderness in the north. He now lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and teaches at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. He recently returned from six weeks in Brazil, where he visited the healer John of God in Abadiania and was healed of his resentments. He says, “I arrived a skeptic and left a skeptic but was healed anyway.”

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.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

CRAIG J. SATTERLEE teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.