Anna Yeatts is the Publisher of Flash Fiction Online. Since Flash Fiction Online is a free magazine, she spends a great deal of time over at Patreon, trying to drum up enough money to keep a free magazine in business. But she appreciates all the readers and supporters (including the world’s most amazing staff of editors and slush readers) who make FFO a reality every month. 

Anna writes in that nebulous overlap between genre and literary works where offbeat, surreal stories are born. Her short stories appear in Cicada, Daily Science Fiction, Mslexia, Drabblecast, PodCastle, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Penumbra among other publications.

When not writing, Anna wrangles two wonderful children, two matching cats, and a German Shepherd who doesn’t believe in weekends. Follow her at Patreon.com or on YouTube.

Kate Heartfield is the opinion editor for a daily newspaper in Ottawa, Canada. Her fantasy and science fiction stories have appeared in places such as Daily Science Fiction, Waylines, Lackington’s, Black Treacle, Postscripts to Darkness and Spellbound. Kate grew up mainly in Manitoba but lived for a year in Belize as a teenager. She is working on a historical fantasy novel and usually writes at night, after her toddler falls asleep. Her website is heartfieldfiction.wordpress.com and she is on Twitter as @kateheartfield.

Mike McCormick is a writer based in Washington, DC. He is a former member and co-leader of the North Shore Writing Circle (Staten Island, NY) and currently writes with the fantastic members of Takoma Writers (DC). Mike is a graduate of Elon University.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Jonathan Louis Duckworth is a completely normal, entirely human person with the right number of heads and everything. He received his MFA from Florida International University. His speculative fiction work appears in Pseudopod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Southwest Review, Tales to Terrify, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. He is a PhD student at University of North Texas.

As a fine art professional, Marissa James has wielded katanas and handled Lady Gaga’s shoes. As a veterinary assistant, she has cared for hairless cats, hedgehogs, and, one time, a coyote. As a writer, her short fiction has been published in nearly a dozen magazines and anthologies including Daily Science Fiction, Mysterion, and Flash Fiction Online, and is forthcoming from Kaleidotrope. She resides in the Pacific Northwest and can be found tweeting about all things writing at @MaroftheBooks.

Emmie Christie’s work tends to hover around the topics of feminism, mental health, cats, and the speculative such as unicorns and affordable healthcare. She has been published in Intrinsick Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and has stories coming out in Zooscape and Allegory this year. Emmie also narrates audiobooks for Audible and loves bringing stories to life out loud as well as on the page. In her spare time, she likes to play D&D and go out line dancing.