Black Lawrence Press is an

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founded in upstate New York by Colleen Ryor. It was an imprint of

Dzanc Books Dzanc Books is an American independent press book publisher. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) private foundation. Michelle Dotter is publisher and editor-in-chief. Background Dzanc Books was founded in 2006 by Steven Gillis, a lawyer turned novelis ...

from 2008 to 2013. It hosts the Big Moose Prize for the novel, the Hudson Prize and the St. Lawrence Book Award. In addition to fiction and poetry, it also publishes French and German translations. The executive editor is Diane Goettel and the senior editor is Angela Leroux-Lindsey, who also manages ''The Adirondack Review''. Contemporary authors published by Black Lawrence include Mary Biddinger, Louella Bryant Daniel Chacón, B. C. Edwards, Rachel Galvin, Eric Gamalinda,

Yvan Goll Yvan Goll (also written Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surr ...

, Carol Guess, Michael Hemmingson, Hardy Jones, Lawrence Matsuda, Laura McCullough, Daniele Pantano, Pascale Petit, Kevin Pilkington,

David Rigsbee David Rigsbee (April 1, 1949) is an American poet, contributing editor and regular book reviewer for '' The Cortland Review,'' and literary critic. He served on the faculty at University of Mount Olive. Career Rigsbee is the author of 20 books ...

, Ron Savage, Anis Shivani,

Jen Michalski Jen Michalski (born 1972) is an American fiction author and novelist. Biography She received her BA in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994 and an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. She ha ...

, and Erica Wright. Pilkington's "The Unemployed Man Who Became A Tree" was a finalist for the 2012 Kessler Poetry Book Award. The press has also published the first English translation of

's ''Traumkraut'' and a collection of previously untranslated poems by

Robert Walser Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German language Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his lit ...

. Black Lawrence press published Louella Bryant's "While in Darkness There is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune,” an account of the 1974 death of

Charlie Dean Charlotte Ellen Dean (born 22 December 2000) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Somerset and London Spirit. An all-rounder, she is a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. She made her international debut for the En ...

(brother of future American presidential candidate

Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 20 ...

) that drew national attention to the story of the younger Dean's disappearance."with love, charlie," by Kevin O'Connor, Rutland Herald, 7 September 2008

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