Shelley Singer has written 13 published novels. The most recent is Blackjack, written as Lee Singer, a near-future thriller now in ebook and audio. She is currently finishing a fictionalized memoir titled The Pepsi Cola Ninth Street Grocery. Shelley teaches fiction writing and has worked individually with writers in every genre from memoir to mystery to science fiction to horror. She lives in Northern California and began her career as a reporter with UPI in Chicago, where she met many famous people, at least two of whom were murdered, and many not-so-famous who are still alive.

Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Morpheus Tales, New Witch Magazine, Toasted Cheese, and others, including several anthologies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, is the recipient of two Norman Mailer Writers Colony Winter Residencies, and is an editor for Read Short Fiction. Her most recent work, Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole—Tales from Haunted Disney World, is a collection of ghost stories set in Disney Parks, and her horror novel, Bad Apple, is forthcoming from Vagabondage Books in November. Her website is www.kristipetersenschoonover.com

Stace Budzko is published or forthcoming in Versal, Upstreet, Necessary Fiction, Prime Number, Hint Fiction: Norton Anthology of Stories, Press 53, PANK, Hobart, elimae, The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, The Collagist, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity & Echo, Quick Fiction, Southeast Review and elsewhere. The screen adaptation of his story, "How to Set a House on Fire” was awarded Best in Show/Best Overall/Best Drama at Spotlight Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Westport Film Festival respectively. At present, he is a writing instructor at Emmanuel College as well as writer-in-residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Find his weekly writing craft column at Grub Street Daily.

Patricia La Barbera has a BA and an MFA in creative writing and is a graduate of UC Berkeley's Professional Sequence in Editing. A spokesperson for her local writers’ association, Keys Writers, Patricia is also the author of a mystery novella, The Celtic Crow Murders, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in various magazines. Upcoming publications include flash fiction slated for two anthologies. She is on the staff of Every Day Fiction. She is originally from New York City but now lives in the Florida Keys. www.patricialabarbera.com

Cindy Shearer is the program chair of the MFA in Writing and Consciousness and the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. She practices and teaches writing as art, which she described in a recent exhibit as allowing her to “reconfigure the boundaries of writing and visual art" and join “tangible materials and the writing process". She has also worked extensively as a freelance editor and writing coach. For more information, visit www.cindyshearer.com.

Randall Brown teaches at and directs Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live, his essay on (very) short fiction appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, and he appears in the Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction. He has been published widely, both online and in print. Also, he is the founder and managing editor of Matter Press and its Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and he blogs regularly at FlashFiction.Net.

Peter Blair is co-editor (with Ashley Chantler) of Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine), and has edited several anthologies of short stories and poems. His own fiction and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and periodicals, and he has been both shortlisted and a runner-up in the short-story section of the Bridport Prize. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, where he teaches Creative Writing and has been a judge in the Cheshire Prize for Literature.