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. She also chronicles her kitchen adventures at twicebaked.onsugar.com.
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. Her work has been featured in Perigee, Ducts, Two Hundred by 200, Dreamvirus, Submit Magazine, Spires, Film & History, and Venus Magazine online, and she self-produced nine issues of “Cataclysm Girl” and “Sparrow” zines between 1997-2003. Sarah currently runs Brooklyn-based pop culture blog http://sarahspy.com and online art/music/literary zine http://storychord.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 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 McDonald has a BA in communications from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs, where she’s hoping to one day trade her day job for the freelance life, or possibly a better day job. She has published two chapbooks of her poetry, “Dear Fuckface (Or The Infamous Disappearing Boy Act”) and “Shiny Things,” which are both available by request. She has also been published in Dreamstreets magazine, and is the author of Dorkabetic, a blog about diabetes and nerdy living.
Poetry Editors:
Alison McGonagle works in publishing. In her spare time, she pursues freelance reporting for daily and weekly newspapers and magazines, and teaches writing courses. Alison earned her M.A. in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College, and her B.A. in English from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. You can learn more about Alison at AlisonMcG.com.
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, Chicago area poet Divya Rajan has had work published in Gloom Cupboard, The Lily Literary Review, Apparatus, Read This, The Times of India, Femina, Vivek, and others. She’s a recent Pushcart nominee and is currently working on her first poetry chapbook, titled Chanting Silhouettes. She was recently featured on “Wordslingers,” a Chicago-based radio show, and is constantly on the lookout for collaborative work with artists in other media.
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.
