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.

Jason S. Ridler is a writer, historian, and actor. He is the author of The Brimstone Files, and his latest historical work Mavericks of War was called a “visceral read that is also an important piece of scholarship” by Pulitzer-Prize winner Richard Rhodes. He is a Teaching Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and teaches creative writing at Google, Youtube, and for private clients.

Shawn Proctor’s writing has been nominated for Best New American Voices and published or is forthcoming in many literary journals and anthologies, including Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, and Crab Orchard Review. More of his work can be read at shawnproctor.com.

Paul Crenshaw’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, anthologies by W.W. Norton and Houghton Mifflin, Ecotone, Glimmer Train, Brevity, and North American Review, among others. He teaches writing and literature at Elon University.

Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, and acquired several degrees in the arts and sciences. Now she writes speculative fiction in Portland, Oregon. Contrary to the rumors, she is probably not a secret android. Rachael is a World Fantasy Award nominee and Tiptree Award honoree. Her fiction has appeared in dozens of venues worldwide, including Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and all four Escape Artists podcasts. Follow her on Mastodon: wandering.shop/@RachaelKJones, or find her at www.RachaelKJones.com.

Raven Jakubowski lives in New York City with her spouse and her large, ill-tempered, orange cat. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Freeze Frame Fiction, and Star*Line. She supports her writing habit by working as a tailor and dresser for stage and screen, and she spends her spare time knitting, tatting, sewing, and reading about history, science, and the history of science. Raven is occasionally found on Twitter and other social media (@Quoth_a_Raven).

Lydia Ondrusek describes herself as a long-married mother of two busy writing her way out of a paper bag. Her fiction and humor can be found at Sniplits, Yankee Pot Roast, BURST Literary Ezine, and Flash Me, and she has work upcoming at Weird Tales. She releases her inner feline at thelittlefluffycat.com.