RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM CARTER’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. More than 150 of his prints are in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

THOMAS CLARK is a part-time photographer, writer, tennis player, and recluse. He lives in St. Albans, New York.

T. PAIGE DALPORTO is a photographer, poet, and songwriter who lives in Charlton Heights, West Virginia.

ANDERS GOLDFARB’s work has been published in Art Forum and The New York Times and is represented in public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

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.

STEVE HANSON’s photography has been published in the Photo Review. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

GARY HARWOOD is coauthor of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Kent State University Press). He lives in Kent, Ohio.

JOSIE CHARLOTTE JACKSON was born in 1992 in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she still lives. She says someday she is going to move to Paris, take a suite at the Ritz, fill her rooms with flowers, write several masterpieces, and be wooed by the crown prince of a minor European country.

ANNA BELLE KAUFMAN was a costume and set designer in her first life. When her son died of aids at age five, she became an art psychotherapist working with aids and cancer patients. Her writing has been published in Calyx and Psychotherapy Networker, and she lives with her husband and their dog in Sebastopol, California.

JOAN KOCAK’s photographs have appeared in Digital SLR Photography and Shots. She lives in Carlisle, Massachusetts, and is pretty sure she drives her loved ones crazy with her obsessive picture taking.

NIKOLINA KULIDŽAN considers herself an extroverted introvert, a feminine tomboy, and an aggressive pacifist. She lives in Monterey, California, where she is working on her first 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.

JUDY NISENHOLT is a photographer who teaches English as a second language and studies Italian and Japanese. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

TARA C. PATTY has a portrait studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she specializes in photographing pregnancy, newborns, families, and high-school seniors.

VALDOMIRO PEIXOTO studied graphic design in his hometown of Felgueiras, Portugal, and now lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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.

JESSICA K. STELLING considers herself “domestically challenged.” Her husband calls her “domestically disastrous.” She lives with him and their two cats in Savannah, Georgia.

CHIP THOMAS works as an Indian Health Service physician at a remote clinic on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. In 1993 he earned a Guinness World Record with two others for cycling twelve thousand miles from the northernmost point in Africa to the southernmost point in nine and a half months.

LAD TOBIN lives in New Hampshire and teaches at Boston College. He is the author of Reading Student Writing: Confessions, Meditations, and Rants and Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Class (both Boynton/Cook). He is completing a memoir about his return, in midlife, to rock-music festivals, random acts of rebellion, and other teenage obsessions.

PATRICIA SOLIVÁN VÉLEZ lives in Coamo, Puerto Rico.

THERESA WILLIAMS’s novel The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage) was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She is addicted to bubbly drinks, watermelon, and cowboy boots and lives in northwest Ohio with her husband, two Boston terriers, and an assortment of cats.

HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.

LISA WILTSE lives in New South Wales, Australia.