Hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, Mark Abdon is fairly new to the publication scene. His stories are popping up in places like The Pinch Journal, Catamaran, X-R-A-Y, Chautauqua and others. He is a Professor of English/Writing at Indiana Wesleyan University and reads for Harvard Review. Connect on socials: @markabdonwrites.
Tim Conley’s most recent fiction collection is Some Day We Will Look Back on This and Laugh. He lives, more or less, in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Jess Golden is an American fiction writer with a preference for flash and a tendency to move around a lot. At the moment, she can be found in Istanbul. Her stories have previously appeared in Pithead Chapel, Passages North, Fictive Dream, Maudlin House, Wigleaf’s Top 50, and elsewhere.
Lesley Hart Gunn is the winner of the Fall 2022 F(r)iction Poetry Contest and has upcoming or previous publications in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Uncanny, Flash Fiction Magazine, PseudoPod, Abyss and Apex, Carve Magazine, Great Salt Lake Anthology, and Phantom Drift Journal. She is originally from the lakes and lighthouses of Atlantic Canada but currently lives in the mountains and desert of the American west with her partner, three children and two curious cats.
Jaren Hutchinson is from Northern Utah. He has a degree in Wildlife Ecology and Management from Utah State University, and has worked in wildlife management, research, and with conservation groups. His career path has changed, but his passion remains in both the natural world and in writing. This is his first publication.
Simon Kerr (he/they) is a writer and bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. They write sci fi and fantasy to express genderqueer experiences and will shamelessly test the resteep limit on a pot of tea. Their short fiction appears online and in several inaccessible zines.
Beth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teacher living in Virginia. She spends as much time as possible listening to the sounds of a pen moving along the page and water flowing over rocks. Her work has been published in journals such as Bending Genres, Story, The Baltimore Review and Sky Island Journal. A collection of her short and flash fiction, A Drawn & Papered Heart, won the 2023 Acacia Prize for Short Fiction and was published in June 2024 by Kallisto Gaia Press.
Katie Manning is the founding editor of Whale Road Review and a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University. Winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for Tasty Other, she’s the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Hereverent (Agape Editions, 2023) and How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press, 2022). Her writing has been featured on Poetry Unbound, Tangle News, Verse Daily, and many other venues. Find her online at katiemanningpoet.com.
K. A. Polzin’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, and elsewhere, and have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2023 and the Fractured Lit Anthology 3. Polzin was a finalist for the 2024 Forge Flash Fiction Competition.
Nora Ray wanted to be a teacher, a doctor, an entrepreneur, a waiter, an astronaut, and, at some point, even an ichthyologist. So she became a writer to be everything at once. You can find her on X: @noraraywrites
Emily Rinkema lives and writes in northern Vermont, USA. Her writing has recently appeared in The Sun Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and X-R-A-Y Lit, and she has stories in the Best American Nonrequired Reading, Bath Flash, and Oxford Flash anthologies. You can read her work on her website (https://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site) or follow her on X or IG (@emilyrinkema).
Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American writer from Hawaii who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Smokelong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 long list. Her most recent stories appear in Fractured Lit, Atlas and Alice, In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction, and are forthcoming in Moon City Review and The Forge. She is working on a collection that explores the challenges and joys of parenting queer kids. Find her online at dawntasakasteffler.com and on X, BlueSky and Instagram @dawnsteffler
Filiz Turhan’s work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, The North American Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. She has been a professor of English at a Community College for a really long time; like many of her students, she is a first-gen American and was a first-gen college student. She has a PhD in Lit from NYU, and her academic publications explore the topics of Romantic-era Orientalism and Contemporary Global Literature. She can be found at filizturhan.com.
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