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.

Quinn Reid (they/them or she/her) is a nonbinary, bi-gender writer of fiction, nonfiction, and plays who lives in the Champlain Islands of Vermont. In addition to Flash Fiction Online, their work has appeared (much of it under their previous name, Luc Reid) in Writers of the Future volumes XIX and XX, Daily Science Fiction, Abyss & Apex, Escape Pod, Nature, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld and The Writer. The first edition of their dictionary of subculture slang, Talk the Talk, was published in 2006, and their short plays have been performed in venues around Vermont.

Quinn is also a musician, a third degree black belt in Taekwondo, a swing dancer, and an entrepreneur. It has been said that they try to do too many things at once, and they will respond to that charge just as soon as they have some free time to do so.

David Austin is a pharmacy technician by day and a graduate student in English at the University of Montevallo by night.  When he isn’t busy with either of those, his hobbies include playing soccer in ninety-five degree weather and adding bacon to things that did not originally contain bacon.  So far, grilled cheese is the winner. “The Liar” is David’s fourth published story. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, which isn’t as bad as it sounds, with his fiance and twenty-five pound cat, who is exactly as big as she sounds.  He can be reached at DavidAustinFiction@gmail.com for questions, comments, or bacon-related suggestions.  For more of David’s work, see http://crossedgenres.com/magazine/020-static/.

Nathaniel Lee lives in North Carolina and dreams of snow.  He is the Assistant/Managing Editor at Escape Pod and the Drabblecast, respectively, and his fiction has appeared in dozens of online and print venues, most recently at IGMS and in the third volume of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology, as well as previously here at FFO.  He has never checked to see if he can fly.