Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer. She is the author of a short fiction collection Morsels of Purple and a prose chapbook Skin Over Milk. She is currently working on her first novel. Her stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including the Best Small Fictions 2022 and 2023. She is the winner of the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Contest and the runner-up for the Larry Brown Short Story Prize. Outside of her day job as a technologist, she is a submissions editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. More at https://saraspunyfingers.com, Twitter/X @PunyFingers, and Instagram @sara_siddiqui24.

Rebecca Halsey is the author of the historic romance novel Notes of Temptation. She holds an MFA degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.​ Her nonfiction writing has been a byproduct of her work in the cybersecurity industry where her analysis has covered cybersecurity trends, eCrime threats, hacktivism, and targeted intrusion adversaries worldwide. She has been part of Flash Fiction Online staff off and on since 2016, most recently taking on the roles of Fiction Editor and Publisher. She resides in Maryland with her husband, four children, and a very stubborn Olde English Bulldogge. When she isn’t writing or editing, she is sketching, painting, gardening, and playing video games.

D.A. Straith (they/them) is a nonbinary transmasculine writer of speculative fiction based in the Greater Toronto Area. Their short work has been published in Augur, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and All Worlds Wayfarer. In their spare time, they run slow and tend to their houseplants. Find their latest list of social media profiles at straith.ca.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Nature:Futures, Mythaxis, Northern Gravy, Apex, Radon, Utopia, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Roi Fainéant, JAKE, and more. Her favourite FFO story lately is “To Serve the Emperor” by Damián Neri. You can find Emma @slashnburnett.bsky.social or emmaburnett.uk.

Tina S. Zhu writes from New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Fireside, The Cincinnati Review, and The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread, among other places. She also reviews books for Strange Horizons, and you can find her at tinaszhu.com.

Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). An out-of-practice black belt, mediocre birdwatcher, and terrible knitter, ey spends most of eir time being bullied by disreputable house pets and adding to a monumental TBR pile.

Liz J. Bradley grew up in a small town in Central New York but escaped as soon as she could. A career in the theater took her from the ocean to the tundra to the Eiffel Tower. She currently resides in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with her husband, two sons, and wind-wild Alaskan husky. She enjoys hiking, spreadsheets, and the power of choosing just the right font. “A Soft and Silent Glow” is her first publication, and she is working on a novel full of thespian thieves racing across the universe to unravel the mystery of their latest heist.