Antler lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His meditations on work will be included in his next book, Ever-Expanding Wilderness.

Sarah E. Bewley is an award-winning playwright and part-time fiction writer living in Gainesville, Florida. Other than the fact that she is not wealthy or famous yet, she is happy with her life.

Barbara Kerr Davis is a college instructor in Visalia, California. She is the author of several nonfiction books and one novel, Letters to My Husband’s Analyst (McFarland & Company).

Mark A. Hetts, a k a Mr. HandyPerson, lives in San Francisco. His articles appear weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle and will be nationally syndicated beginning later this year.

Louis Jenkins’s latest book, Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems, will be published by Holy Cow! Press in October. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Gregg Levoy lives in Santa Fe and is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of This Business of Writing.

Tim Melley lives in Seattle, Washington, where he is at work on a collection of stories.

D. Patrick Miller is a senior writer for Yoga Journal, the author of A Little Book of Forgiveness (Viking), and coauthor, with Tom Rusk, M.D., of The Power of Ethical Persuasion (Viking).

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Malidoma Patrice Somé is a native of Burkina Faso in West Africa. He holds two doctorates and is the author of Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community (Swan/Raven & Company). He lives in Oakland, California.

Rafael Weinstein is a professor of English who teaches literature and creative writing at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, California.

Hella Hammid was a photographer for forty years before her death two years ago in Los Angeles.