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Anna Yeatts

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. Anna holds an MFA in Popular Fiction Writing from Seton Hill University.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EMMA MUNRO

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.

SENIOR EDITOR

C E Aylett is a British author living in France. She travelled parts of East Asia and Australia, got up to some weird shenanigans that make good fodder for fiction, then settled back in Europe to renovate a ruin and start a family. Amid all the noise, dust and disturbed sleep it struck as a good time to write a novel. She speaks terrible French extremely well and has a penchant for really good live music.

C E Aylett

C E Aylett is a British author living in France. She travelled parts of East Asia and Australia, got up to some weird shenanigans that make good fodder for fiction, then settled back in Europe to renovate a ruin and start a family. Amid all the noise, dust and disturbed sleep it struck as a good time to write a novel. She speaks terrible French extremely well and has a penchant for really good live music.

SENIOR EDITOR

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

Sabrina West

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

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

Yelena Crane is a Ukrainian/Soviet born and USA-based writer, incorporating influences from both her motherland and adopted home soil into her work. With an advanced degree in the sciences, she has followed her passions from mad scientist to science fiction writer. Her stories appear in Nature Futures, DSF, Third Flatiron, 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 her motherland and adopted home soil into her work. With an advanced degree in the sciences, she has followed her passions from mad scientist to science fiction writer. Her stories appear in Nature Futures, DSF, Third Flatiron, and elsewhere. Follow her on Twitter @Aelintari and https://www.yelenacrane.com/.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

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.

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

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. She resides in Maryland with her husband, four children, and bulldog. When she isn't writing, she is sketching, painting, gardening, and playing video games.

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. She resides in Maryland with her husband, four children, and bulldog. When she isn’t writing, she is sketching, painting, gardening, and playing video games.

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

Jawziya Zaman is a writer and editor in Karachi, Pakistan. Her writing has appeared in Inklette Magazine, The Aleph Review, Dissent, Himalistan, Scribble, Psychopomp Magazine, and others.

Jawziya Zaman

Jawziya Zaman is a writer and editor in Karachi, Pakistan. Her writing has appeared in Inklette Magazine, The Aleph Review, Dissent, Himalistan, Scribble, Psychopomp Magazine, and others.

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

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

  • Zach Aszalos
  • Jeanna Cammarano
  • Sandy Egger
  • Kate Franklin
  • Aaron Grierson
  • Cadence Mandybura
  • Mike McCormick
  • K.D. McDougall
  • Mary Meadows
  • Tait Szabo
  • Tarryn Thomas
  • Fidel H. Viegas
  • Han Whiteoak
  • Laura Wilson
  • Tina Zhu

Editors Emeriti

Suzanne Vincent

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.

WENDY NIKEL

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 LAnalog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cricket, and Nature. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press.

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