About the Authors

Down South (Cover Photo): Kelsey Stone is an amateur photographer currently living in Annapolis, Maryland. He is a frequent contributor to Five on the Fifth.

The Dark: Jan Darrow has most recently been published by Black Poppy Review and has a piece forthcoming in True Chili. Her collection of flash fiction, "The Blue Hour" will be available on Amazon this fall.

For Emma: Kelsey Ipsen lives in France. Her writing can be found in wigleaf, Columbia Journal, Hobart, and x-r-a-y.

Vantage: J.L. Moultrie is a native Detroiter, and a poet and fiction writer who communicates his art through the written word. He fell in love with literature after encountering Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many others. He considers himself a literary abstract artist of modernity.

It's Been a While: 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.

Sunshine Skyway: Niles Reddick is author of the novel "Drifting Too Far from the Shore," two collections "Reading the Coffee Grounds" and "Road Kill Art and Other Oddities," as well as a novella "Lead Me Home." His work has been featured in thirteen anthologies, twenty-one countries, and in over three hundred publications including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, New Reader Magazine, Forth Magazine, Cheap Pop, Flash Fiction Magazine, With Painted Words, among many others.