Baffling Magazine is a quarterly online magazine of flash fiction.
We love fantasy, science fiction & horror stories with a queer bent.
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dave ring
Co-Editor/Publisher
dave ring is a queer editor and writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC. He is the publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, as well as editor of more and more anthologies. His short fiction has been featured in numerous publications, including Fireside Fiction, Podcastle, and Lackington’s. Find him at www.dave-ring.com or @slickhop on Twitter.
Aun-Juli Riddle
Assistant Editor
Aun-Juli Riddle is a writer and illustrator living in Baltimore, Maryland with her partner and trio of cats. She runs an online tea shoppe and enjoys traveling the country to sell her wares and collect souvenir magnets. She has short fiction in khōréō magazine, Apparition Lit, Luna Station Quarterly, and the anthology Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die. Find her online at aunjuli.art or on Twitter as @aunjuli.
D. A. Vorobyov
Associate Editor
D. A. Vorobyov was born in Russia and grew up in the southern United States. His work has appeared in Worlds of Possibility, Strange Horizons, Glittership, and Robot Dino Fiction. When he’s not writing, he can be found practicing historical fencing, playing video games, or tinkering with his fountain pens.
Athar Fikry
Associate Editor
Athar Fikry is a writer of fantasy and fun pulpy nonsense, often of the historical variety, with the occasional dip into ttrpgs. They live in Cairo, Egypt, with their dog, their menacingly high TBR pile, and their many opinions on old Egyptian musicals. Their interactive novel with Choice of Games, The Dragon and the Djinn, came out July 2022. You can find them studiously not tweeting on twitter @atharfi.
Bendi Barrett
Associate Editor
Bendi Barrett is a speculative fiction writer, game designer, and pretend-adult living in Chicago. He's the author of the novella Empire of the Feast and two interactive novels: Avatar of the Wolf and Fate of the Storm Gods. He also writes gay erotic fiction as Benji Bright and runs a patreon for the thirsty masses. He can be found at Benmakesstuff.com and on twitter as both @bemdo and @benji_bright.
Illustrations by Izzy Peters.
Former Staff
Craig L. Gidney
Co-Editor
Craig Laurance Gidney writes both contemporary and genre fiction from Washington, DC. He is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2008) and Skin Deep Magic (Rebel Satori Press, 2014), Bereft (Tiny Satchel Press, 2013) and A Spectral Hue (Word Horde, 2019). Find him at www.craiglaurancegidney.com and @ethereallad on Twitter.
Craig was the co-editor for Issues One through Twelve.
Gabriella Etoniru
Assistant Editor
Gabriella Etoniru is a writer and editor of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction from Boston, MA. They are interested in the intersections of Black and Queer global histories and personal narratives. You can read their work in The New York Times, The Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, The Ladies Compartment, and The Indy. Find them @g_etoniru on Twitter.
Gabriella was the assistant editor for Issues Four through Twelve.
Kel Coleman
Co-Editor
Kel Coleman is a mom, editor, and Ignyte-nominated author. Their fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Apparition Lit, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, and others. Though Kel is a Marylander at heart, they currently live in Pennsylvania with their husband, tiny human, and a stuffed dragon named Pen. They can be found at kelcoleman.com and on Twitter at @kcolemanwrites.
Kel was co-editor for Issues Thirteen through Sixteen.