A commercial photographer for over twenty-five years, Michael Harker works as an ophthalmic photographer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. His barn photographs are featured in the traveling exhibit "Barns Again! Celebrating an American Icon," sponsored by Humanities Iowa and organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Building Museum. Born on a farm in northwest Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, Jim Heynen teaches writing at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author of, most recently, The Boys' House: New and Selected Short Stories.