Madeline Anthes is the Assistant Editor of Lost Balloon. In 2020 she won the Barren Magazine Flash Fiction Award, had an Editor's Choice pick in CRAFT Magazine's flash fiction contest, and was a finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly flash fiction award. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and her flash has been longlisted for Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions. Her first collection of flash fiction, Now We Haunt This Home Together, was published in May 2020, and her most recent collection Beautiful, Violent Things was published in September 2021.