About the Authors

L'Après-midi d'un Faune (Cover Art): Karen Schauber is a flash fiction writer obsessed with the form. Her work appears in 50 international literary magazines and anthologies, including Bending Genres, Ekphrastic Review, Fiction Southeast, New Flash Fiction Review, and Spelk Fiction. 'The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings' (Heritage House, 2019) is her first editorial/curatorial flash fiction anthology. Schauber curates ‘Vancouver Flash Fiction,’ a flash fiction Resource Hub and critique circle, and in her spare time, is a seasoned family therapist. A native of Montréal, she has called Vancouver home for the past three decades.

The Prototype: Mary Tharin is emerging fiction writer and this is hwr first short story. She currently lives in Italy, where she teaches English. Before moving across the globe, she worked as an environmental attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Appetizers: Claudia Schatz is a master’s student at the Middlebury School of French and lives in New Haven, CT, where she reads, writes, and makes the storytelling podcast Westories. Her writing has appeared in The Postscript Journal, Euphony Journal, and Artifex Magazine.

Feeling No Pain: Neal Suit is a recovering lawyer. He writes fiction and is completing his first novel. He has short stories published or forthcoming in Literally Stories, Mystery Weekly, Emerge Literary Journal, Blue Lake Review, and (mac)ro(mic), among others. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his family and periodic writer's block. He can be reached on Twitter @SuitNeal.

Most Likely To: Phebe Jewell's recent flash appears or is forthcoming in Ellipsis Zine, Crack the Spine, Fictive Dream, STORGY Magazine, and The Citron Review. A teacher at Seattle Central College, she also volunteers for the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a nonprofit providing college courses for women in prison. Read her work at http://phebejewellwrites.com.

Horse King: An emerging writer from California, Cynthia Van is currently studying mechanical engineering at university. Her work has previously appeared in The Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal.