Ciara LaVelle is the founding editor of The Furnace Review. She is a 23 year-old writer living in Miami. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, In Posse Review, and Room of One's Own, and her latest project, the solution is you, is available by request.

sinoun is 22 and is the creator of smelling trees where she writes stories. She is responsible for designing and updating this website. When she has free time she likes to do nothing.

Fiction Editors:

Andrea Hallowell is the former writer of various zines, including Almost Everyone I Love Lives in New Jersey, and a co-organizer of the Philadelphia Zine Fest. She has a BA in communications from Drexel University, and currently works as the editor of the alumni magazine for the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia.

Elaine Johanson is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine. She will soon be moving to NYC where she will pursue an M.F.A. while searching for the best neighborhood grocery store chocolate shelf.

Hannah Renk has a BA in communications from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania. She is 22 and currently resides in Williamsport, PA with her parents, although she hopes that will all change soon. She writes quite a bit in her free time and hopes to put out a chapbook [all about a certain previous obsession] sometime this year. You can check out her daily musings on her Livejournal.

Holly Wilson lives in Kansas. She's a recent graduate of the MFA program at Wichita State University and is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Poetry Editors:

Sonya Chung lives in Brooklyn, NY and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked stories. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The Threepenny Review, Sonora Review and Crab Orchard Review among others, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has an MFA from the University of Washington and a BA from Columbia University.

Sarah Lynn Knowles Sarah Lynn Knowles recently completed a Master's degree in Publication Management at Drexel University in Philadelphia, after earning a Bachelor's degree in English/Communications from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2003. She has written, designed, and produced nine zines since 1997("Cataclysm Girl" issues 1-8 from 1997-2001, and "Sparrow" in 2003). You may visit her website at http://www.spyfive.org.

Kimra McPherson is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a journalism degree from Northwestern University and publishes the zine "Noodle" on an extremely occasional basis.

Jeanette Sayers is a Boston University alumna and employee, still currently residing in Boston--the volatile traffic and weather is a source of inspiration. She took a year off to write and work, and is in the process of applying for M.F.A. programs. She's currently working on a chapbook, Ancient Autumns, which will hopefully be available upon request in Fall 2005. of short stories.