Suzanne Vincent is the editor-in-chief of Flash Fiction Online. That’s what people think anyway. Actually, she’s really a pretty ordinary middle-aged woman packing a few extra pounds and a few more gray hairs than she’s comfortable with. As a writer, she leans toward the fantasy spectrum, though much of what she writes is difficult to classify. Slipstream? Isn’t that where we stick stories when we just can’t figure out where else they go? Suzanne’s first professional publication was right here at FFO, published before she joined the staff: “I Speak the Master’s Will,” — a story she’s still very proud of. While she doesn’t actually have time to blog anymore, she once did. You can still read her ancient posts on writing at The Slushpile Avalanche. Suzanne keeps a house full of kids (3), a husband (1), and pets (too many to number) in Utah, USA. Yes, she’s a Mormon. No, there isn’t another wife. Mormons haven’t actually practiced polygamy since the 1890s. Too bad. She’d love to have another woman around to wash dishes and do laundry.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Kyle Richardson is a speculative fiction writer, author, and editor living in Ontario, Canada with his adorable wife, their rambunctious son, and their adventurous daughter. He writes about broken hearts, cephalopods, and the occasional clockwork beast. He also has a terrible habit of saying the wrong thing at the most inopportune moments (just ask his wife).

You can find his books and stories at kylerichardson.ca.

Samuel Barnhart washes dishes and scrubs toilets for a living. When he isn’t neck deep in liquefied chemicals, he writes short stories while listening to the loudest, fastest music he can find. His work has been published online in Kids ‘Magination and Slink Chunk Press, in print for Silver Pen‘s annual anthology and Fashionbula Argentea‘s anniversary anthology, and performed onstage at the Jackie Gleason Room in Miami. He sometimes blogs at sambarnhart.tumblr.com, and lives in South Florida.