Flash Fiction Online Staff

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher

Rebecca Halsey

Rebecca Halsey

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. Her analysis has covered cybersecurity trends, eCrime threats, hacktivism, and targeted intrusion adversaries worldwide.

Senior Editor

Sabrina West

Sabrina West

Sabrina West is a writer and wildlife biologist living in Sacramento, California.

Senior Editor

Nancy Greene

Nancy Greene

I am a sci-fi/ fantasy geek and business lawyer. I returned to writing after the birth of my oldest son as an escape from the drain of the business of litigation. Frankly, my law office is a mix of classic meets geek with the sci-fi /fantasy novels, autographs and toys scattered lovingly all over it. Over the years I developed near-allergic reaction to legal mumbo jumbo. I applied my experience with prose to my law practice and began serving my clients better and winning cases more often.

Since first being published in 2012, I have several published short stories and a novella across different genres. I also self-published the nonfiction: Navigating Legal Landmines, a Practical Guide to Business Law for Real People, an Amazon best-seller in three categories in 2017, and contributed to the Amazon best-selling non-fiction Succeeding Through Doubt, Fear and Crisis in 2014.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Jason A. Bartles is a queer SFF writer and academic. Originally from West Virginia, he now calls Philadelphia home. As a professor of Latin American literature, he has published Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed (Purdue University Press, 2021), which received an Honorable Mention for the Premio Mejor Libro en Humanidades from the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. As a writer, he is a member of the Clarion West Class of 2023. His fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Little Blue Marble, and Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, among others. At present, he’s writing his debut novel, Gaia Trembles, a queer fantasy set in the wake of devastating climate change, to be published as part of the World’s Revolution Series. Find him on Twitter @jabartles or on his website: https://jasonabartles.wordpress.com/

JASON A. BARTLES

Jason A. Bartles is a queer SFF writer and academic. Originally from West Virginia, he now calls Philadelphia home. As a professor of Latin American literature, he has published Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed (Purdue University Press, 2021), which received an Honorable Mention for the Premio Mejor Libro en Humanidades from the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. As a writer, he is a member of the Clarion West Class of 2023. His fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Little Blue Marble, and Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, among others. At present, he’s writing his debut novel, Gaia Trembles, a queer fantasy set in the wake of devastating climate change, to be published as part of the World’s Revolution Series. Find him on Twitter @jabartles or on his website: https://jasonabartles.wordpress.com/

ASSISTANT EDITOR

LARK LU

LARK LU

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Tom Walsh lives in northern California where is a writer, husband, and dad to two kids and a calico cat. He has been a newspaper reporter, corporate editor, wildland firefighter, and more. He started reading and writing flash fiction during the lockdown, became hooked and now has stories in a number of journals.

TOM WALSH

Tom Walsh lives in northern California where is a writer, husband, and dad to two kids and a calico cat. He has been a newspaper reporter, corporate editor, wildland firefighter, and more. He started reading and writing flash fiction during the lockdown, became hooked and now has stories in a number of journals.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Yelena Crane is a Ukrainian/Soviet born and USA based writer, incorporating influences from both into her work. With an advanced degree in the sciences, she has followed her passions from mad scientist to sci-fi writer. Her stories often explore the boundaries of technology, the complexities of human nature, and the consequences of our choices. She’s published in Nature Futures, DSF, Dark Matter Ink, Flame Tree, and elsewhere. Follow her on twitter @Aelintari and https://www.yelenacrane.com/.

Yelena Crane

Yelena Crane is a Ukrainian/Soviet born and USA based writer, incorporating influences from both into her work. With an advanced degree in the sciences, she has followed her passions from mad scientist to sci-fi writer. Her stories often explore the boundaries of technology, the complexities of human nature, and the consequences of our choices. She’s published in Nature Futures, DSF, Dark Matter Ink, Flame Tree, and elsewhere. Follow her on twitter @Aelintari and https://www.yelenacrane.com/.

Art Director

Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Former fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine, she has also dabbled as a kitchen hand, video store manager, assistant library technician, media monitor, political and archaeological photographer, graphic designer, guest lecturer, festival director, panellist, fiction judge, essayist, creative writing teacher and manager of Agog! Press, which produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction. In 2012 an Australia Council grant enabled her to study with Margaret Atwood in Key West, Florida. Cat has a BA in visual arts (CAI), a postgraduate certificate in editing and publishing (UTS) and a PhD in creative writing (Curtin), the latter concerning the intersection of ecocatastrophe science fiction and contemporary climate fiction. Cat’s debut novel, Lotus Blue (Skyhorse, 2017) was shortlisted for the Compton Crook, Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. Her collection, The Bride Price (Ticonderoga, 2013) was nominated for an Aurealis Award and won the 2014 Ditmar for Best Collected Work. Eighty of her short stories have been published since the turn of the millennium and her 24 awards for writing, editing and art include winning the Peter McNamara Conveners Award twice for services to Australia’s speculative fiction industry. Cat is an environmental activist and keen traveller currently obsessed with photographing adorable birds and grungy walls.

First Readers

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We couldn’t do what we do without the hard work and dedication of our team of First Readers, which currently includes:

  • Zach Aszalos
  • Jacob Baugher
  • Matt Blankenship
  • Emma Burnett
  • Jeanna Cammarano
  • Sandy Egger
  • Kate Franklin
  • Laura Garrison
  • Aaron Grierson
  • Cadence Mandybura
  • Mike McCormick
  • K.D. McDougall
  • Mary Meadows
  • Tait Szabo
  • Tarryn Thomas
  • Han Whiteoak
  • Laura Wilson

Editors Emeriti

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Previous Editors-in-Chief include:

  • Suzanne Vincent – from 2001-2020
  • Wendy Nikel – from 2020-2021
  • Emma Munro – from 2021-2023
  • Anna Yeatts – 2023

INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF OUR TEAM?

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We ask for a quarterly commitment, reading 20-30 stories per week.

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