JESSICA BERKOWITZ takes family portraits for money and makes self-portraits and digital collages for fun. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and recently took in a stray cat who wakes her — and the neighbors — at 6 a.m.

WILLIAM CARTER’s most recent book is titled Causes and Spirits, a fifty-year retrospective of his photographs. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

MARK CHESTER’s photographs illustrate Charles Kuralt’s 1979 book Dateline America, and his forthcoming book of photographs is titled Twosomes. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

LIZ CRAIN is a fiction and food writer living in Portland, Oregon. She recently tried to open her front door by pushing the unlock button on her car key. She pushed it so many times that she set the car alarm off. Her first book, Food Lover’s Guide to Portland, is due out this summer from Sasquatch Books.

ROBERT ADÁMY DUISBERG is a software engineer who teaches at Seattle University in Washington. He is also a composer and conductor and has had orchestral works performed by the Seattle and Flagstaff symphonies. He keeps bees on Bainbridge Island and commutes there from Seattle by kayak.

RACHEL J. ELLIOTT works as an editorial associate at The Sun. She moonlights slinging dough for her family-run business, Stone’s Throw Pizza, where she works with her husband, Seth, and her daughter, Ava, making artisan pizza in a traveling wood-fired oven.

NINA GERZON is a mother and artist living in Easthampton, Massachusetts, who does contact improvisational dance as often as she can. She hopes someday to get paid to travel the world and take photographs.

DUNCAN GREEN recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.

LOUIS B. JONES is the author of the novels Ordinary Money (Penguin), Particles and Luck, and California’s Over (both Vintage), all of which are New York Times Notable Books. He lives in the Sierra Foothills of California and spends summers in Squaw Valley.

MATT KOLLASCH is a photographer living in Warsaw, Poland.

MATTHEW LAPISKA lives in Astoria, New York. He and his wife recently welcomed a new baby girl, who has already grown accustomed to having a camera track her every move.

LYN LIFSHIN’s books of poetry include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (both Texas Review Press), and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press). She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

LOU LIPSITZ is working on a collection of poems about being a psychotherapist. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, near a very small lake that he visits frequently.

RAHUL MEHTA’s debut short-story collection, Quarantine, is being published in India by Random House India this spring and in the U.S. and Canada by HarperPerennial in summer 2011. His fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Fourteen Hills, and New Stories from the South 2009: The Year’s Best. He lives in Alfred, New York, where he is working on a novel.

MIRIAM ROMAIS is the executive director and editor for En Foco, a nonprofit that supports photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage. She is also an avid motorcyclist and lives in New York City.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

SPARROW lives in a double-wide trailer in Phoenicia, New York, where he can pick up French radio stations from Montreal at night. His most recent book is America: A Prophecy — The Sparrow Reader.

LISA WILTSE lives in New South Wales, Australia.

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.