  Contributors' NotesJoseph Boyden is a young Canadian writer living in New Orleans, freshly graduated from an MFA in Fiction at UNO. He's completed a collection of stories entitled You Don't Want To Know What Jenny Two Bears Did and is currently at work on a novel. Shawanigan Bingo Queen is his first published story. Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. He reads his poems in coffeehouses, bars and cafes around the city. His poems and stories appear in Borderlands, Evergreen Chronicles, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James Wright Review, American Letters and Commentary, Literal Latte, and many other magazines and journals. He is the author of two books of poetry, Shoreline and Stations of the Heart (Alphabeta Press). In 1989 he was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem, "Flower Festival at Genzano," which appeared in Whetstone. Thomas J. Hubschman's work has appeared online in BPQ#5 (where it tied for that issue's Readers' Choice Award), Gruene Street, Kudzu, and many other places both on- and offline He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is a consultant to Black Excel, a scholoarship service for minorities. James Katowich is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas, and is an Associate Editor for Kudzu.. He was born in Michigan, grew up in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. He and his new wife Karen live in an apartment with her cat and flop-eared, mini-lop rabbit. He says "I do my writing in the spare bedroom where the rabbit stays; he often nibbles at my shoestrings while I type." David McNair's work has been seen in the Virginia Quarterly Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and is the proud parent of a new son. Faith Miller lives in New York City with her cat Shamrock, has a degree in English Writing Knox College and has taken workshops at the Writer's Voice, NYU, and the New England Writer's Conference. Her work has appeared in Hanging Loose, Oasis and Here's Me Bus, Open Scroll, In Vivo and the Cat Machine Index. She is currently at work on a novel. June Owens writes regular reviews for Amelia and The Chatahoochee Review and, now, for us too. We're happy to have her. Browning Porter's work appeared previously in BPQ#5. He lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he's also the lead singer for the Treefrogs. Charles Chaim Wax received a Master's Degree in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982. He has been a high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, for twenty-four years and a Buddhist for twenty years. 
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