Joby Bass:  Armadillo Hunting with an Old Man
Joby Bass grew up in a small town in north Louisiana and is a professor of geography at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Andrea Coombes:  Sharing Talia
Andrea Coombes lives with her daughter in San Francisco and is a financial news reporter for a Web site.

Todd Dayton:  Dive Bars of San Francisco
Todd Dayton is the author of San Francisco’s Best Dive Bars (Gamble Guides, 2004).

Ana Djordjevich:  Shared Spaces cover photo
Ana Djordjevich is a photographer in San Francisco who also enjoys a career in the nonprofit community.

John Grey:  All Hell at 55
John Grey is a poet, playwright, and musician. His latest book, What Else Is There, was published by Main Street Rag.

Mary Hamrick:  New York’s Pull
Mary Hamrick’s poetry has appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat, Phoenix Press, and Red Hills Reader, among other publications.

Jennifer Lehr:  The Light Switch
Jennifer Lehr, the author of Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex: A Memoir (ReganBooks, 2004), is working on her new book, Why Have Kids?.

John Lehr:  The Scariest Place
John Lehr is a writer/comedian who has appeared on television, film, and off-Broadway and is married to a woman who wrote a book about his lack of sex drive.

Lorraine Mavis Lupo:  Living with Strangers
Lorraine Mavis Lupo lives in Berkeley, California. “Living with Strangers” is an excerpt from a novel in progress.

Brenda Miller:  Getting Yourself Home
Brenda Miller’s collection of essays, Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002), was a finalist for the PEN American Book Award. She has received four Pushcart Prizes for her work.

Mary Jo Pehl:  The Snake Pit
Mary Jo Pehl’s book, I Lived with My Parents and Other Tales of Terror, was published by Plan 9 Publishing in 2004. She has contributed to NPR’s “All Things Considered” and is a former writer for “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

Greg Roden:  Dive Bars of San Francisco
Greg Roden's photographs have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News, among other publications.

John Shaw:  Home Plate
John Shaw writes short stories and lives in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Linda Wojtowick:  Hammer
Linda Wojtowick lives in Portland, Oregon, where she indulges her film habit without restraint.