Bridget Besaw (“Held, In Place”) is an award-winning environmental photojournalist based in northern Maine.

Gabriel Cooney (“A Matter of Faith”) is a photographer in Haydenville, Massachusetts.

Sierra Crane-Murdoch ’10 (“Hollowed Ground”) is a Virginia-based freelance writer. She was a 2009-10 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism.

Angela Evancie ’09 (“Hollowed Ground”) is a photographer based in Middlebury.

Sarah Franco ’08 (“Raising Canes”) recently received a master’s degree in education from Northeastern University.

Richard Hawley ’67 (“Held, In Place”) was the headmaster of the University School in Cleveland from 1988 until his retirement in 2005. He is the author of 18 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Lucas Kavner ’09 (“The Class Notes {Of Your Mind}”) is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.

Caleb Kenna (“The Journey of Roberto Véguez,” p. 36) is a Vermont-based photographer. His work can be found at

Ed Koren (“No English Spoken Here,” Cover) has contributed more than 1,000 cartoons and illustrations to The New Yorker. He lives in Brookfield, Vermont.

Tad Merrick (“Summer Reading”) is a photographer in Middlebury.

Marian Richardson (“Raising Canes”) is an illustrator in Holland, Michigan.

Graham Roumieu (“The Class Notes [Of Your Mind]”) is an illustrator based in Toronto.