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.

Miyuki Jane Pinckard is a writer, researcher, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. She is Associate Professor of Practice at University of Southern California in the Interactive Media and Games Division where she explores playable theater and role-playing games. She co-hosts thegenrehustle.com, a podcast about writing genre fiction. She tweets at @miyukijane and blogs sometimes at www.miyukijane.com. She is a graduate of Clarion 2017.

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She most recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to the short novel Driftwood and Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. The first book of that series, A Natural History of Dragons, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her other works include the Doppelganger duology, the urban fantasy Wilders series, the Onyx Court historical fantasies, the Varekai novellas, and nearly sixty short stories, as well as the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides. Together with Alyc Helms as M.A. Carrick, she is the author of the upcoming Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with The Mask of Mirrors in January 2021. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.

For more information, visit www.swantower.com or her Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/swan_tower.

Caroline Diorio is a student at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. Her inspirations include Greek mythology, Guillermo del Toro, the romance novel section at CVS, Waffle House, Twilight, and the many cryptids of the Southeastern United States, especially Mothman. Her horror fiction has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast, and she has a flash fiction piece forthcoming at Daily Science Fiction. When she’s not working, running, or doing homework, she enjoys spending time with her family and drafting her first novel (maybe she’ll even get around to finishing it one of these days).