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.

John Guzlowski’s work appears in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals here and abroad. His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany appear in his award-winning memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mystery novels and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America. His most recent books of poems are Mad Monk Ikkyu and True Confessions.

Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Boneset & Feathers, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Invention of Ghosts. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vastarien, Tor Nightfire, Black Static, The Dark, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, and LampLight, among others. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com

John League holds two degrees in music performance, an impressive financial professional credential and (probably) the record for most visits to the Pohick Regional Branch of the Fairfax County Library in a single year—though the three gentlemen who gather there to play Go almost every morning are a constant threat. “The Wedding Gig” is his first published work of fiction.

Katrina S. Forest is a Clarion West alumna who has sold work to a variety of magazines, including Crossed Genres, Every Day Fiction, and Highlights for Children. Her kids think she’s eccentric, but don’t say so because their vocabularies aren’t that big yet. She feels “obscure language expert” would be a pretty cool job, but she’s also quite happy in her current work of teaching pre-K and making up imaginary people. In her spare time, she battles the raging slush pile at Urban Fantasy Magazine and becomes unreasonably happy when she finds a story she really loves.