Black Lawrence Press is an independent publishing company founded in upstate New York by Colleen Ryor.Poets & Writers, May/June 2009Poets & Writers, January 2011Writers Digest, 10 Oct 2011Poets & Writers, May/June 2012"Small Press, Big Roar," Writer's Chronicle, October–November 2006 It was an imprint of Dzanc Books from 2008 to 2013.Ron Hogan. Galleycat. 6 June 2008 It hosts the Big Moose Prize for the novel, the Hudson Prize and the St. Lawrence Book Award.Contest, The Writers, Jan 2011Black Lawrence Press Offers Early-Bird Special, Poets & Writers, 29 June 2012 In addition to fiction and poetry, it also publishes French and German translations.Poets & Writers database, June 2012American Writer, Spring 2011 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 "With love, Charlie," Rutland Herald, September 7, 2008"Lincoln author Louella Bryant's latest book," Addison County Independent September 1, 2008 Daniel Chacón, B. C. Edwards, Rachel Galvin, Eric Gamalinda, Yvan Goll, Carol Guess, Michael Hemmingson, Hardy Jones, Lawrence Matsuda,Ploughshares, Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2011, P. 195 Laura McCullough, Daniele Pantano, Pascale Petit, Kevin Pilkington, David Rigsbee, Ron Savage, Anis Shivani,'Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 10, 2009Melissa Kwasny, "An Ecopoet's Turmoil" in St. Petersburg Times, April 19, 2009 Jen Michalski,McCauley, Mary Carole. "For Jen Michalski, a prolific year," Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2013 and Erica Wright. Pilkington's "The Unemployed Man Who Became A Tree" was a finalist for the 2012 Kessler Poetry Book Award.Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton), 4 May 2012
The press has also published the first English translation of Yvan Goll's Traumkraut and a collection of previously untranslated poems by Robert Walser.
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 (brother of future American presidential candidate Howard Dean) 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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