Meg Arney writes experimental and speculative fiction, and has a particular fascination with format. Their work has previously been published in HUMID and The Broken Plate.
A professor emerita of Western Michigan University, Miriam Bat-Ami has published five books including the Scott O’Dell winner Two Suns in the Sky. Her most recent works appeared in Persimmon Tree, Ember, and The Mackinaw.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Animal Children, published by Nomadic/Black Lawrence Press. His short story “Taylor Swift” won the Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast, and his fiction can be found most recently in The Glacier, Hex, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heavy Feather Review and Your Impossible Voice. He lives in Barcelona.
Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry collection, ALL THAT BLUE, forthcoming 2026. She is also the author of two chapbooks, WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY (Poetry, Finishing Line Press) and EDGE OF THE SEA (Creative Nonfiction, CutBank Books). Allison’s prose appears in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, DIAGRAM, The Gettysburg Review, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com
Barbara Diggs’s flash fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. Her stories have also won Highly Commended awards with The Bridport Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Awards and appears in in the Best Microfiction 2025 anthology. She lives in Paris, France with her family.
B. B. Garin is a writer living in Buffalo, NY. Her work has appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Westchester Review, Luna Station Quarterly, and more. She is currently a guest editor for The Masters Review and CRAFT Literary. She earned a B.F.A. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, and continues to improve her craft at GrubStreet Writing Center, where she has developed several short fiction pieces, as well as two novels. Connect with her @b.b.garin or bbgarin.wordpress.com.
Nancy S. Koven (she/they) is a psychologist and professor emerita who divides her time between Maine and New Mexico in the US. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Weird Lit Magazine, The Future Fire, Kinpaurak, Gone Lawn, Thin Skin, Masque & Maelström, and elsewhere. In her writing, she explores the borderlands of mind and body, often with feminist, speculative elements. You can read her work at https://nancykoven.carrd.co/.
Steven R. Kraaijeveld is a Dutch philosopher, ethicist, and writer who grew up in Czechia, China, and the Philippines. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, L’Esprit Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Maudlin House, and MoonPark Review. He was a finalist in Fugue‘s 2025 Prose Contest. Find out more about him on Instagram @esarkaye or through his website: stevenrkraaijeveld.com.
Christopher Locke’s flash has appeared in such magazines as SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, Barrelhouse, Flash Fiction Magazine, MoonPark Review, New Flash Fiction Review, JMWW, Maudlin House, Flash Boulevard, and elsewhere. He won the Black River Chapbook Award for his collection of speculative short stories 25 Trumbulls Road. His latest book of poems, Music For Ghosts, (NYQ Books) and a memoir-in-essays, Without Saints, (Black Lawrence Press) were both released in 2022. Chris lives in the Adirondacks and teaches English and creative writing at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Mathieu Parsy is a Canadian writer who grew up on the French Riviera. He now lives in Toronto and works in the travel industry. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Your Impossible Voice, BULL, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. Follow him on Instagram at @mathieu_parsy.
Ryan Peed is a fiction writer from Kyle, Texas. He is a recipient of the Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship and holds a degree in Exercise and Sports Science from Texas State University. An MFA candidate at the University of Houston, his other fiction appears or is forthcoming in Southeast Review, Jet Fuel Review, and Cutleaf Journal.
Scott Ragland has an MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from UNC Greensboro. Before taking a writing hiatus, he had several stories published, most notably in Writers’ Forum, Beloit Fiction Journal, and The Quarterly. More recently, his flashes have appeared in Ambit, The Common (online), Fiction International, Cherry Tree, CutBank (online), the minnesota review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Cutthroat, Fictive Dream, The MacGuffin, and Allium, among others. He is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee and has served as a flash reader/editorial assistant for CRAFT. He lives in Carrboro, N.C., with his wife Ann, two dogs, and a cat.
Ian Willey is an educator based in the inland sea area of Japan. He divides his time between reading, writing, and living, though these three worlds can get confused. Connect with him on X (@ID_Willey) or Instagram (idwilley).
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