KEITH ALTHAUS was accepted for a writing fellowship in 1969 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and has lived on Cape Cod ever since. He is the author of two books of poetry, Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts Press) and Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press).

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, and her essays appear in The Sun’s new book The Mysterious Life of the Heart and in Thoreau’s Legacy, an anthology from the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. She teaches writing both in person and online and is recovering well from surgery, thanks to Dr. Jeff Thurlow.

SANDY CARTER is coauthor of the book of photographs Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their Work (Firefly Books). She lives in Anacortes, Washington.

RADEK CERMAK lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

MORGAN FRITH bought her first camera in the tenth grade and took photographs of children playing Little League baseball, which she then sold to their parents. She lives in Rayville, Louisiana.

TONY HOAGLAND’s very American trajectory has included Zen, the Grateful Dead, aa, and other landmarks of his generation. His most recent poetry collections are What Narcissism Means to Me (Graywolf Press) and Little Oceans (Hollyridge Press), and a new collection, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, will be published by Graywolf next month. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, the Mark Twain Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches writing at the University of Houston in Texas.

DAVID KUPFER’s writing has appeared in Whole Earth, Yes!, and the Progressive. He lives in San Rafael, California, and is spending the winter sowing seeds, planting trees, and turning compost.

LEE MARTIN is the author of the novels The Bright Forever, River of Heaven (both Three Rivers Press), and Quakertown (Plume). He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches in the mfa program at Ohio State University.

GARY MATSON lives in Sunnyside, New York. He has lived in every borough of New York City except Staten Island, though he was woken up there a number of mornings.

R.A. McBRIDE is working on a book of photographs about San Francisco movie theaters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

DOUG McMAINS is a photographer and cinematographer who lives in Herman, Nebraska. His work is represented by Getty Images.

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

GERALD PARKER lives in Manomet, Massachusetts.

JERRY PORTELLI photographs people and architecture for a living, but his passion is taking pictures of fine art. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

CARLY REITSMA lives in Canaan, New Hampshire, where she works as a gardener and fishes for brown bullheads.

DOUG RHINEHART is a retired college administrator who lives in Woody Creek, Colorado.

MATTOX ROESCH and his wife sold their house in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and moved to a 340-square-foot home in Unalakleet, Alaska, in an attempt to simplify their lives. They have since learned that simplification is not for the lazy: “It’s a lot of work to catch and process enough fish for a year,” he explains. In addition to being a stay-at-home dad to his one-year-old daughter, Ayuu, he passes the long winters by skijoring (cross-country skiing while harnessed to dogs) and dog sledding.

DAVID ROMTVEDT lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, where he has spent much of the past year building his house — digging the foundation, framing, insulating, hanging drywall, and now, finally, painting. His most recent book of poems is titled Some Church (Milkweed Editions).

JENNIFER SPELMAN wanted to be an FBI agent when she was ten but has since settled on being a photographer. Her work has been published in B&W and Rangefinder. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

COLE THOMPSON’s photographs have been published in Focus, Popular Photography, and Photo Life. He manages private vocational colleges for a living and raises llamas at his ranch in Laporte, Colorado.

DAVE WESTOVER is a freelance photographer and graphic designer who lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

JOE WILKINS was born and raised in eastern Montana and now directs the writing program at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. He writes, “Last night, my newborn son’s eighth at home, I read aloud chapters of Little House on the Prairie in the wee hours of the morning. I estimate I got just over three hours of sleep.”