ROY ARENELLA’s photographs have been published in Popular Photography, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. He lives in Greenwich, New York.

TONY ARPANTE takes photographs for pleasure and occasionally for money. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TOM BECKER has neglected the darkroom for the last few months in favor of his new addiction: selling his belongings online. But he still carries a camera with him nearly everywhere he goes. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS’s latest book, a collection of aphorisms titled Hosanna, is forthcoming from Xenos Books. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is editor and chief director of VOX Press, a publisher of avant-garde writing. He is engaged to artist and songwriter Betsy Chapman and father to six-year-old goddess Simone.

PERRY DILBECK lives in Locust Grove, Georgia, and teaches photography at the Art Institute of Atlanta. He is author of The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South (University of Georgia Press).

ELISECIA ENCALARDE became interested in photography because she wanted to capture the shocking images of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. She now studies photography at Louisiana Tech University and lives in New Orleans.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Her latest book is Kutuuka, a collection of photographs and drawings of and by orphans in Uganda.

CHAR MARIE FLOOD’s photographs have appeared in Kalliope and SHOTS. She lives in Chicago.

EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.

MEGAN KRUSE lives in Missoula, Montana, where she is finishing her mfa and teaching first-year composition at the University of Montana. She collects unlikely stories and terrible jokes, and she always wears boots, no matter what the weather.

DAVID KUPFER is an environmental activist, biker, artist, Frisbee tosser, and culinary risk taker whose writing has appeared in Bay Nature, The Progressive, and Adbusters. He lives in Northern California, where he is working on three books, two screenplays, and one big garden.

ALISON LUTERMAN lives in Oakland, California, and is the author of the poetry collections See How We Almost Fly and The Largest Possible Life. The title of her poem in this issue comes from a poem by Lucille Clifton.

ROBYN McDANIELS lives in Audubon, Minnesota.

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

LAURA PRITCHETT is the author or editor of five books, her favorite being her first, Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which she wrote when she was young and didn’t know anything about agents or the publishing world. Her newest book, about Colorado’s bears, is due out this month. She lives in northern Colorado and teaches at workshops around the country.

SARAH RAKEL ORTON’s writing has been published in the Harrow, Mytholog, and the Summerset Review. She likes to cook meals with butternut squash, dye her hair pink, and read books about murderers. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and six cats.

BETHANY REID submitted her poems to The Sun because her massage therapist told her to. Her writing has appeared in the Santa Clara Review, Pontoon, and the anthology Cadence of Hooves (Yarroway Mountain Press). She lives in Edmonds, Washington, with her husband and three daughters.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

MARK SMITH-SOTO is the longtime editor of UNC Greensboro’s International Poetry Review. His poem in this issue is dedicated to the memory of Carmen Mayer.

TATJANA SOLI was born in Austria and now lives in Southern California with her artist husband. Her debut novel, The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin’s Press), will be published this summer.

MR. STEVO lives in Camp Meeker, California.

MARSHALL SURRATT is a high-school teacher who lives in Flower Mound, Texas. He is working on a long-term photography project about loss and memory.

COLE THOMPSON lives in Laporte, Colorado, where he raises llamas. His work has been published in Popular Photography, Focus, and Photographer’s Forum.