Robert Olen Butler's first book of flash stories, Severance, was published in 2006.  His new collection is entitled Intercourse, with 100 flash stories in 50 couples.  His third book of flash fiction, Weegee Stories, will be published in early 2009.  He won the Pulitizer Prize for fiction in 1993.

Audrey Colombe is a writer who teaches and a faculty member who is an editor (Tampa Press/Tampa Review).  She writes and publishes short fiction and non-fiction (Los Angeles Review, Portland Review, The Sun, etc.).  She loves the short forms of creative work best, but is rather new at the short-short form.

Gordon Grice’s nonfiction book, Rough Beasts: The Book of Dangerous Animals, is in press at Dial/Random House. He’s also the author of The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (Delta, 1999). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and other magazines.

William Reese Hamilton lives in Choroní, a fishing village on the coast of Venezuela, butted up against a mountainous cloud forest, in a region that produces the finest cacao in the world. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The North American Review, Puerto del Sol, Review Americana, Adirondack Review, Night Train Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, In Posse Review, Steel City Review, Loch Raven Review, Ink Pot/Lit Pot, Smokelong Quarterly and elsewhere.

Molly McCaffrey received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and currently teaches creative writing at St. Andrews College, where she also runs the college's Press. The prologue of her novel was recognized in the NCSU Brenda L. Smart Fiction Contest, and she has an essay forthcoming in Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, the novelist David Jack Bell.

Recently, David M. Valin was named the third place finalist for the Kirkwood Award in Creative Writing. UCLA Extension gives the award to a student whose work shows literary promise. Hobart and Monkeybicycle have recently accepted stories of his for publication.