Ciara LaVelle is the founding editor of The Furnace Review. She is a 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.

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Fiction Editors:

Deanne Battle is a fiction hobbyist living in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, she loves reading, watching movies, laughing at irreverent humor, and outdoor concerts. She spends her free time chasing her dog around Prospect Park and other areas of Brooklyn. Her goal for 2008 is to begin publishing her short stories. Deanne is currently working on a novella.

Kate Garber recently graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and now works at a bookstore in Cambridge, MA. She was Senior Editor of the undergraduate literary journal Parnassus, and she plans on continuing studies in modern / contemporary literature.

Sarah Lynn Knowles works in book production in New York City. Between 1997-2003 she produced nine issues of the zines "Cataclysm Girl" and "Sparrow," and her work has appeared in such publications as "Two Hundred by 200," "The Furnace Review," "Dreamvirus," "Submit Magazine," "Ducts," "Film & History" and "Venus Magazine online." She earned her M.S. in publication management from Drexel University and her B.A. from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Visit her blog at http://sarahspy.blogspot.com.

Laurence Levey has degrees in Psychology dating back to the previous century. Since completing Naropa University's Creative Writing Program in Prague, CZ in 2005, he has had fiction published in Cezanne's Carrot and accepted for publication in Art Times. In addition to freelance writing and editing, he contributes Arts articles to Worcester Magazine and is working, with a co-author, on a semi-fictional comic travelogue (loosely) about Cuba. He continues simultaneously to find and lose his way.

Hannah Renk has a BA in communications from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania. She's 23, lives in Newark, Delaware, and is employed in Wilmington, Delaware as a temp who'd almost sell her soul for a real job. Almost. She published a chapbook of poems and letters entitled "Dear Fuckface (Or The Infamous Disappearing Boy Act") in 2005 which is available on request. She has also been published in Dreamstreets magazine.

Poetry Editors:

Alison McGonagle edits professionally for an international publishing house, while also freelance reporting for daily and weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts, where she is a native. A creative writer since childhood, Alison's poetry was published in Spires Literary Magazine in 2003, 2004 and 2006. Alison graduated from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2005, earning her B.A. in English, concentrating on creative writing. She is currently pursuing a M.A. in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College in Boston.

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.

NPB McQuown is a poet, freelance writer and editor. She's a native of the Bronx, a student in the Hunter College MFA program in Poetry, and is also an associate editor for food and judaism blog The Jew and The Carrot. Her columns and articles have been published in various small papers and magazines, while her voice can be heard going on about sentence structure in classrooms on both sides of the East River.

Ansley Moon is a writer who was born in New Delhi, India and raised in Georgia. She holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Creative Writing. Her work has been featured in various anthologies and is forthcoming in Southern Women's Review. She was recently chosen as a Fiction Semi-Finalist in the SLS Unified Contest. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Divya Rajan, who has a degree in Chemistry from University of Bombay and specialized coursework in Textile Chemistry from SASMIRA, shares that her true passions are poetry and art. She was awarded the creative writing award at an All- Bombay Intercollegiate writing competition in 1991 and her poems have appeared since in various local and international journals. Her artwork has been exhibited at a suburban Chicago gallery and are forthcoming in Blue Fifth Review.

Jeanette Sayers is a copyediting assistant at an orthopedic journal, but she finds reading TFR poetry submissions infinitely preferable to articles on interdiscal degeneration or shoulder arthroplasty. She is taking a few years to write and work before reapplying for MFA programs. She's currently working on a chapbook of poetry, Ancient Autumns, as well as a compilation of her collective work, which are both available upon request.