Amanda Leduc | @AmandaLeduc

Amanda is a writer and novelist currently located in Hamilton, Ontario. She has published stories and articles across Canada, the US, and the UK, and was most recently shortlisted for the 2012 PRISM International Short Fiction Contest. Her latest novel, The Miracles of Ordinary Men, is out now from Toronto's ECW Press.

Andrew F. Sullivan | @AFSulli

Andrew F. Sullivan was born in Peterborough, Ontario. His recent fiction publications include work on Joyland, Necessary Fiction, >kill author, Monkeybicycle, Riddle Fence and The Good Men Project. In 2012, Sullivan received an Ontario Arts Council grant for his story collection All We Want is Everything. He no longer works in a warehouse, but is currently the associate fiction editor for The Puritan.

Braydon Beaulieu | @BraydonBeaulieu

Braydon Beaulieu is a PhD student at the University of Calgary, studying contemporary literature and creative writing. His work has appeared in Windsor Review, Little Fiction, Steel Bananas, and Broken Pencil. His stomach is not currently full of bricks, but is rather in a state of grumbling emptiness as it awaits the delivery of pizza.

Brad Rose

Brad Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles, and lives in Boston.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in San Pedro River Review, Off the Coast, Third Wednesday, Imagination and Place, Right Hand Pointing, Boston Literary Magazine, Barely South Review, and other publications.

Jessica Kluthe | @JessicaKluthe

Jessica Kluthe is an author and writing instructor from Edmonton, AB. Her first book, Rosina, The Midwife has been selected for publication by Brindle & Glass Publishers and will be available in spring 2013. Her shorter works have appeared in various Canadian literary journals, and she is very excited to be a Little Fiction-er.

Jen Neale

Jen Neale was the 2012 winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared in OCW Magazine and the collections of short fiction Writing Without Direction (2010) and Joke Time (2006).

Len Kuntz | @LenKuntz

Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State. In addition to being an editor at the online literary magazine Metazen, his work appears widely in print and online at numerous journals. Len's debut story collection from Aqueous books arrives in 2014.

Leesa Cross-Smith | @LeesaCrossSmith

Leesa Cross-Smith was thinking about her teenage summer theatre camp adventures and reading a lot of Aimee Bender and Miranda July when she wrote this little story. She was also watching a lot of baseball and eating strawberry popsicles. Find her at LeesaCrossSmith.com or send her stories at WhiskeyPaper.

Peg Daniels

Formerly a math professor at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, Peg Daniels writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her fiction has been published in Kaleidoscope Magazine, moonShine Review, and Southern Women's Review, and her creative nonfiction in Kaleidoscope Magazine and New Mobility. She has completed a mystery novel.

Paul McQuade | @pgmcq

Paul was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but now lives in Tokyo where he reads, writes, and teaches. His work has been featured in Fractured West, Goblin Fruit, Pulp Metal, and Specter, among others. His work also appears in Listerature Volume 1 here at Little Fiction.

Sara Habein | @sshabein

Sara is the author of Infinite Disposable, a collection of microfiction, and her work has appeared on The Rumpus and Persephone Magazine, among others. Sara is the editor of Electric City Creative, and also writes book reviews and music commentary at Glorified Love Letters.

Troy Palmer | @troy_palmer

Troy is the founder, Creative Director and Managing Editor of Little Fiction. When he’s not art directing, reading submissions or editing stories, he can be found writing, walking too fast, or thinking there’s more he needs to be doing. He currently lives and rarely sleeps in Toronto.

Vincent Scarpa | @VincentScarpa

Vincent Scarpa recently graduated with a BFA in writing from Emerson College. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Little Fiction, The Baltimore Review, and plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2011. He is the recipient of the 2012 Norman Mailer College Fiction Award.

Will Johnson | @LiteraryGoon

Will Johnson is a writer, journalist and photographer from Victoria, B.C. He lives with his girlfriend Darby and his pet budgies Hemingway and Miriam.