Flash Fiction Online Staff

Publisher

Anna Yeatts

Anna Yeatts is a fantasy and horror writer living in Pinehurst, NC. Her short fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Penumbra, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, STRAEON, Bad Dreams Entertainment, and Spark: A Creative Anthology among other publications.

Editor-in-Chief

Wendy Nikel

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. She’s had many of her own stories published in places such as Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cricket, and Nature. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press.

REPRINT EDITOR

Samantha L. Strong

Samantha L. Strong (formerly S. L. Saboviec) writes dark and beautiful sci-fi and fantasy stories about complicated characters. Like many Elder Millenials, she’d like to become an herbalist and live in an abandoned (and probably haunted) nunnery somewhere far away from people. She loves drawing sigils on everything, growing plants, and playing with her three adorable daughters. You can find more about her writing at SamanthaLStrong.com. Beating the odds against metastatic breast cancer since 2017.

SENIOR EDITOR

Sabrina West

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

SENIOR EDITOR

Emma Munro

Emma Munro is a queer cis woman who lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia with her wife and cat. Her stories have appeared in Hashtag Queer LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology Vol. 1, Hello Horror, Pure Slush, Cosmos and other places. You can find her online at www.emmamunro.com.au

JUNIOR EDITOR

Charlie Aylett

JUNIOR EDITOR

Nancy Greene

JUNIOR EDITOR

Tobias Backman

First Readers

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

Tarryn Thomas
Mary Meadows
Zach Aszalos
Jeremy Horwich
Ashley Steineger
Jeannine Dudzinski
Aaron Grierson
AJ Cunder
Tess Anderson
Sophie Reeves
Roni Stinger
Tom Walsh
Yelena Crane
Ania Louka
Melody Cummins
Laura Wilson
Elle Van Hensbergen

Editors Emeriti

Jake Frievald

Flash Fiction Online’s Founding Editor Jake Freivald lives on Long Island, New York in a house teeming with life: a wife, eleven kids (yes, all from said wife, no twins), two dogs, and a cat. Lack of qualifications never stopped Jake from taking a job, so when he saw the need for a professional flash-only ‘zine he created Flash Fiction Online. He was astounded when a team of amazing volunteers rallied around the project.

Suzanne Vincent

Suzanne Vincent joined the Flash Fiction Online team early in 2008 as a lowly slush reader, then served as editor-in-chief of Flash Fiction Online for 9 amazing years. Since handing the reins over to the supremely talented and capable hands of Wendy Nikel at the tail end of 2020, Suzanne has filled her time with a few dozen of those “I’ll get to that one of these days” projects. She is blessed to live at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Ogden, Utah, where she raised a husband and three children, and where she and her best pal, Paisley (an Irish Terrier), make a nuisance of themselves on the extensive network of trails.

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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