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A little about some of our contributors. Please feel free to send us a small biography (including roughly where you live) - and a photo - of yourself! Just use the usual email address.
Karla Jacobs is a Northern California writer with zero fiction to her credit. She makes her living writing advertising copy, and because of the discipline needed to write three-word headlines that sell, is trying her hand at flash fiction, while she slowly gathers enough words to write her first novel.
Iowa author Roberta Beach Jacobson is drawn to the magic of words – poetry, puzzles, song lyrics, stand-up comic humor. As a student of tanshi (short poems), she strives to include humor whenever possible. Besides poetry, she writes greeting cards and flash fiction … anything to avoid a day job. Find out more on her website.
Khulya Jafarova is a journalist, writer and the official translator of 3 bestsellers (Eat, Pray, Love, Catching Fire and Mockingjay). She lives in Baku, Azerbaijan, with her husband, believes that everyone has their way of searching for themselves, and writing is hers.
Nicky Johnson's love of the Golden Age of Mystery led him to start writing short stories. He currently teaches elementary school in Pennsylvania.
Jan Jorgensen lives in Montreal where she mainly writes poetry and hosts literary events in between doing her day job as a pastor.
Harri Junttila is a Finnish technology and innovation journalist currently living in Nairobi, Kenya. Before journalism he worked as a chef, and wrote fiction in his free time as a hobby. He recently became a freelance agriculture journalist for Daily Nation, East Africas biggest daily. And remarkably in English, not his native Finnish, which makes him ridiculously proud.
Gerald Kamens lives with his wife in Falls Church, Virginia. has worked in a mental hospital, as well as in the very heart of US Governent. His children's stories, essays, and short plays have appeared in publications as diverse as Flashquake, the Baltimore Sun, POZ, Dirt Press, Abbey Hill and Literary. His last acting role was in Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Andrew C. Kidd lives and works in Glasgow. He enjoys reading and writing short stories and flash fiction.
Shawn M. Klimek is a globetrotting U.S. military spouse presently in Japan: his stories and poems have been published widely. His winning comedy short story Pregenesis is featured in Gold: The Best of Clarendon House Anthologies, Volume One, 2017/2018. Find more about him on Facebook or Amazon.
Adam Kluger lives in New York City, attending the same high school as Jack Kerouac. A leader of New York's growing Anti-Art movement, he draws inspiration from diverse sources: Bukowski, Fante, Hemingway and Melville, as well as artists Dubuffet, Warhol, Ross, Payson, and Picasso. Adam has had over 50 short stories published, including his recent Desperate Times – Short Stories.
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Natalia Krasovskaya was born in Moscow and worked in casino industry for 20 years, mostly in Africa and Asia. She now lives in Paris with her wonderful husband. Writing is a relatively new hobby for her; she likes the sweet agony it brings.
A full-time scientist and spare-time writer, Laura Kuhlmann lives in Toronto, Canada. Her flash fiction has been published in Reflex Fiction and her crime fiction in Toronto Writers Co-Op Anthology Voices. When not writing short fiction, Laura can be found working on her first mystery novel.
Mickey Kulp, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a writer and father of two mostly grown children who have survived his shenanigans through smarts they inherited from their mother. His nonfiction articles, fictional stories, and poems have appeared in consumer magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. You can find out more about Mickey at his own website.
J.J. Landry lives in the Cincinnati area with his wife and children. He enjoys reading and writing about crime-fiction and World War Two. He has had several flash fiction stories published and is currently working on a novel and a novella, both of which he hopes to have published one day.
Robb Lanum is a failed screenwriter in Los Angeles who has fallen in love with the (super-)short form. His work has also been featured on 101words.org and fiftywordstories.com.
Gordon Lawrie lives in Edinburgh and worked as a teacher for 36 years before writing a number of novels including Four Old Geezers And A Valkyrie and The Blogger Who Came in from the Cold, plus many short stories. More details can be found on his own website. He also runs a very small publishing operation, Comely Bank Publishing.
Bruce Levine, a native Manhattanite, has spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and as a music and theatre professional and is published on and in numerous internet and print journals. He lives with his rescued Australian Shepherd, Daisy. His work is dedicated to the loving memory of his wife, dancer/actress, Lydia Franklin. Visit Bruce at his own website.
Jenn Linning is a former English teacher who has only recently entered the world of writing. She decided to begin with flash fiction and has quickly fallen in love with the crafting of very short stories. Jenn is a Scot based in Manchester (UK). She blogs about her writing experiences on her personal site.
Over the past two decades since completing her English degree, Cate Lloyd has worked on each side of the bookselling-publishing fence, and freelanced as a copyeditor and proofreader. Despite the joy of talking constantly about other people’s writing, she decided enough is enough: time to start putting her own words where her mouth is. She lives in Sydney.
Wendie Lovell lives in Dorset. Before she arrived at Friday Flash Fiction, she had three short stories/flash fiction published in CafeLit. She's a member of a local writing group.
Rae Marie Luna is a writer of fiction, poetry, and experimental theater, in addition to storytelling at times. She lives and works on the neck of Boston, Massachusetts and can be found at raemarieluna.wordpress.com
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