PRESIDENT
Stephen Johnston
E-mail: sfjohnston@sfjohnston.com
Stephen Johnston's short story "Fish" was nominated for a 2005 Derringer Award, his short story "Mr. Sparks" appeared in the print anthology Doses of Death, and his story "Jimmy Crick" won both First Place and the Readers Choice Award in Jason Evans' Clarity of Night Contest. He has also published stories in Amsterdam Scriptum, Web Mystery Magazine, and SENSE ezine. Stephen lives with his wife and two boys in the Netherlands, and when he's not writing short mystery fiction he works in Amsterdam and Brussels as a copywriter and editor for a strategic consultancy firm. Feel free to pop on over to his website at http://www.sfjohnston.com.

VICE PRESIDENT
Molly MacRae
Email: MacRae@insightbb.com
Molly MacRae's series characters, Margaret and Bitsy, have bickered through seven stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, including "Fandango by Flashlight," which was the Decemebr 2005 cover story. She won the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction in 2000 for her story "More or Less." MacRae edited Humor, Rumor, and Romance in Old Jonesborough, a history of Tennessee's oldest town as seen through 18th and 19th century newspaper articles. Her essay “Book Pusher: My Life in and out of Fiction” appeared in the fall 2005 issue of Mystery Readers Journal. Her first novel, Wilder Rumors, will be published in July 2007 by Five Star Mysteries. MacRae has been a museum director and bookstore manager and now works in the children's department of the public library in Champaign, Illinois. In addition to being a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, she is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

DERRINGER AWARDS COORDINATOR
Joyce Holland
Email: boatdollie@aol.com
Derringer Award-winning Joyce Holland has papered her office ceiling with rejections, but she also has a fist full of acceptances for her short stories. She has written and sold poetry, true crime, science fiction, a mystery novel or two and written a weekly column for a large newspaper, the Northwest Florida Daily News. Her stories have appeared in numerious periodicals and e-zines, including Murderous Intent, Futures, Blue Murder and The Case.com, as well as the Barnes & Noble anthology, Crafty Cat Crimes and the Intrigue Press anthology, Blondes In Trouble. She recently appeared in an episode of A & E's, City Confidential. Her books, Boat Dollies and Beyond Gulf Breeze feature her series heroine Sally Malone. Joyce is currently President and Conference Chairperson for Emerald Coast Writers in Northwest Florida, and organizes an assortment of workshops and a yearly conference that attracts agents and editors from all over the country. Joyce and her husband, Tony, live on a small barrier island off Florida's Emerald Coast.

WEB DESIGNER
Kevin Burton Smith
E-mail: kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
Kevin Burton Smith is a Montreal writer, editor, critic and essayist currently stationed in Southern California, whose views on crime and detective fiction have appeared in Mystery Scene, CrimeSpree, January Magazine, The Rap Sheet, Crime Spree, Blue Murder Magazine, Details, Mystery Readers Journal, Word Wrights, Over My Dead Body, Crime Time and Crime Factory. He's currently stationed in the Los Angeles area. As well as maintaining the official Short Mystery Fiction Society Web Site, he's the founder/editor of The Thrilling Detective Web Site, the internet's premier resource for fans of fictional private eyes and other tough guys and gals in literature, film, radio, television and other media. Recent examples of his fiction have appeared in Iced, a Canadian noir anthology, and Grunt and Groan, an anthology focussing on tales of sex in the workplace. He also co-edited the short story collection Down These Wicked Streets with partner-in-crime, D.L. Browne. Additional information about Kevin is available at his personal web site and on The Thrilling Detective Blog.