LAUREN BLALOCK lives in Quitman, Louisiana, and is a photography student at Louisiana Tech University.

ALICE BRADLEY lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of one of the top-ranked parenting blogs on the Web (www.finslippy.com) and co-creator of the website Let’s Panic about Babies! (www.lets-panic.com). Her writing has been published in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Fence, and Good Housekeeping.

ALAN DAVIS grew up in Louisiana, where, according to a sign in front of  Poche’s Market, “everything on a hog is good.” He now lives in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he teaches in the mfa program at Minnesota State University and serves as senior editor of New Rivers Press. He is the author of two story collections, Rumors from the Lost World and Alone with the Owl (both New Rivers Press), and has recently completed a third.

JANICE DEAL’s stories have appeared in Ontario Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and StoryQuarterly, and she is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award for prose. She lives in Downers Grove, Illinois, where she watches zombie movies with her husband and makes dioramas with her daughter.

FLORIN ION FIRMITÃ is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who traces his interest in art to his father’s photo lab in Romania, where at the age of six he was entrusted with mixing dangerous chemicals and printing photographs. When not sunbathing in southern France, he battles snowstorms in Winchester, Connecticut.

MARTIN FISHMAN died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in New York.

SHARON LEE HART teaches photography in Nashville, Tennessee, and recently completed a photography project about farm-animal sanctuaries.

ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.

TONY HOAGLAND’s newest book of poetry is Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. He recently taught at the 2011 Conference on the Great Mother and New Father, where he was overstimulated by the company of talented artists and musicians and found serious cultural debate of the kind he’d once hoped to find within the walls of American universities. He lives in Houston, Texas.

JEREMY LLOYD lives in Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains. Due west, south, and east of his home are forests containing some of the richest biodiversity on the continent. Due north is good beer. He is at work on a novel.

DAVE LUCAS reviews poetry for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and his first book of poems, Weather, will be published next spring by the University of Georgia Press. He divides his time between Cleveland, Ohio, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

IGOR MALIJEVSKÝ is a photographer, poet, and short-story writer living in the Czech Republic.

JULIA McHUGH is the single mother of two daughters and lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

LOGAN MOCK-BUNTING’s photographs have been published in the New York Times and Outside. He lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JENNIFER SPELMAN began her photography career at a district attorney’s office, taking pictures of crime scenes. Now she teaches photography in the U.S., Mexico, and India. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LESLIE STROOPE is a belly dancer and photographer living in Portland, Oregon.

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

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.