Randall Brown is the author of the award-winning flash fiction collection Mad to Live (Flume Press 2008). He teaches at and directs Rosemont College's MFA in Creative Writing Program and holds an MFA from Vermont College. His short and very short fiction has been published and anthologized widely, and his essay "Making Flash Count" appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field (Rose Metal Press 2009). From 2004-9, he served in numerous roles with the flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly, including Lead Editor. He blogs regularly at FlashFiction.Net.

Patricia La Barbera has an MFA in creative writing and is a graduate of UC Berkeley's Professional Sequence in Editing. She is an editor at Etopia Press and is on the staff of Every Day Fiction. A spokesperson for her local writers association, Keys Writers, Patricia is also the author of a mystery novella, The Celtic Crow Murders. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in various magazines. Originally from New York City, she now lives in the Florida Keys.  www.patricialabarbera.com

Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum, The AdirondackReview, Barbaric Yawp, New Witch Magazine, Toasted Cheese, and others,including several anthologies such as Dark Opus Press’ In Poe’s Shadow. She holds an MFA from Goddard College,has received three Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residencies, and is editor for Read Short Fiction. Her most recentwork, Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole,is a collection of ghost stories set in Disney Parks; her horror novel, Bad Apple, is forthcoming fromVagabondage Books in Fall, 2012. She’s also a member of the New England HorrorWriters Association. Her website is www.kristipetersenschoonover.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.

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.