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.

KJ Kabza began selling short fiction in 2002, while earning his B.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch College. Since then, he has sold over 70 stories to places such as Tor.com, Motherboard, Nature, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and more. His work has been called, “A fresh new voice in the genre” (Booklist) and “Bursting with both ideas and emotion” (RT Book Reviews). His debut print collection, THE RAMSHEAD ALGORITHM AND OTHER STORIES, released in January 2018 from Pink Narcissus Press.

For updates on forthcoming releases and links to free fiction, you can follow him on Twitter @KJKabza, peruse http://www.kjkabza.com, or sign up for his mailing list at http://eepurl.com/27xTr.

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.

Shannon Peavey is a writer and horse trainer from Seattle, Washington.  She’s a graduate of the Clarion West workshop, and her stories have also appeared in places such as Apex, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.  Find her online at shannonpeavey.com, or on twitter @shannonpv.

Matt Dovey is very tall and very English and most likely drinking a cup of tea right now. He has a scar on his arm where a micrometeorite tore through his spacesuit and left him seconds from a cold and frozen death. He now lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife & three children, and despite being a writer, he still hasn’t found the right words to properly express the delight and joy he finds in this wonderful arrangement.
His surname rhymes with “Dopey”, but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. He is the Golden Pen winner for Writers of the Future volume 32 (2016), was shortlisted for the James White Award (2016), and has short fiction all over the place, including the March 2016 issue of Flash Fiction Online with “This is the Sound of the End of the World“. Keep up with everything at mattdovey.com, or follow along on Facebook and Twitter both as @mattdoveywriter.

Born and raised in Singapore, Xin Rong Chua is a fan of writing, science, and the various combinations thereof. Her work has appeared in The Straits Times and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.