Tom Hazuka has published the novels The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First, and edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction; Flash Fiction Funny; Sudden Flash Youth; You Have Time for This; and A Celestial Omnibus. He teaches at Central Connecticut State University.

Kim Chinquee is the author of the collections Oh Baby, Pretty, and Pistol. Her work has been published in journals including the Nation, NOON, Conjunctions, and Ploughshares. She is an associate editor of New World Writing and an associate professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo State.

Meg Tuite is author of Domestic Apparition, Bound By Blue, Bare Bulbs Swinging, a full-length flash collection forthcoming, three chapbooks, and she was nominated numerous times for the Pushcart. She is fiction editor of Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press. She teaches flash fiction and poetry at Santa Fe Community College. 

Lex Williford’s book, Macauley’s Thumb, won the 1993 Iowa Award. Co-editor, with Michael Martone, of The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, he founded the University of Texas at El Paso's online MFA and currently chairs UTEP's bilingual MFA program.