Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has lived in Spain and Czech Republic, and currently writes from Montreal, Canada. He is the author of the novels Ymir and Annex, as well as the collection Tomorrow Factory. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages, including Polish, Italian, Romanian, and Japanese, and adapted into an Emmy-winning episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS. Find free reads and support his work via patreon.com/richlarson.

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 where her analysis has covered cybersecurity trends, eCrime threats, hacktivism, and targeted intrusion adversaries worldwide. She has been part of Flash Fiction Online staff off and on since 2016, most recently taking on the roles of Fiction Editor and Publisher. She resides in Maryland with her husband, four children, and a very stubborn Olde English Bulldogge. When she isn’t writing or editing, she is sketching, painting, gardening, and playing video games.

Marilyn Hope is a queer Korean-American writer and visual artist who studied English literature at the University of Denver, where she was a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Special Citation for Outstanding Literary Achievement. She received the first place award in CRAFT’s Short Fiction contest in 2019, and in 2021, she was the winner of CRAFT’s Editors’ Choice Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in X-R-A-Y, Fractured Literary, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Flash Fiction Online. She is a PEN America 2024 Emerging Voices Workshop Fellow.

Stefan Alcalá Slater is a speculative fiction writer from Los Angeles. His work has been published in F&SF, Daily Science Fiction, and Mermaids Monthly. He is a graduate of Clarion West, and he has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College. You can find him online at stefanaslater.com or on X (Twitter) at @StefanASlater.

H. A. Eugene is a Pushcart-nominated writer of strange stories about food, work, and death. His work has appeared in X-R-A-Y Lit, HAD, Flashback Fiction, and Radon Journal, among others.

L.L. Madrid lives in the desert, writes in a closet, and occasionally gives herself nightmares. She is a Pitch Wars alum, a proud member of the Bi+ Book Gang, and a recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship.