Since 2010 Abyss & Apex has had a flash editor, Jennifer Dawson, with a staff dedicated to this very short form of fiction.
Among other well-known names, Abyss & Apex published early Aliette de Bodard, Marie Brennan, Karl Bunker, Paul Carson, Rae Carson, J. Kathleen Cheney, N. K. Jemisin, Lisa Mantchev, Will McIntosh, Tony Pi, Mercurio D. Rivera, Lawrence M. Schoen, and Lavie Tidhar.
Abyss & Apex has a policy of trying to publish veteran science fiction and fantasy writers to put their up-and-coming new authors on the same Table of Contents with established people in the genre, thereby giving a boost to new careers.
Such authors include Barth Anderson, Greg Beatty, C. J. Cherryh, Ian Creasey, Paul Di Filippo, Samantha Henderson, Matthew Kressel, Jay Lake, Richard A. Lovett, Tim Pratt, Cat Rambo, Ken Scholes, Justin Stanchfield, Bud Sparhawk, Michael Swanwick, and Rachel Swirsky.
A selection of fiction and poetry, predominantly from issues #15 to #27, was published in The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume One (Hadley Rille Books, 2009) edited by Wendy S Delmater.