Staff

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.

sinoun is the creator of anatomic air press. she writes stories and makes random projects. 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'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.

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:

Tina Kimbrell lives in Missouri and recently graduated with a BA in English from Northwest Missouri State University. She hopes to move somewhere new and pursue and MFA degree next fall. When she's not fantasizing about living somewhere new, she attends classes and makes sandwiches at the local sub shop.

Sarah Lynn Knowles works as an editorial/production assistant in New York City. She has written, designed and produced nine zines ("Cataclysm Girl" issues 1-8 from 1997-2001 and "Sparrow" in 2003), 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. in English/Communications from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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.

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.