Staff
Black Lawrence Press
Executive Editor
Diane Goettel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. As an undergraduate she studied at Oxford University under the tutelage of Jamie McKendrick. Diane recently earned an MA from Brooklyn College. Some of her favorite authors include John Steinbeck, Lorrie Moore, Willa Cather, and Harper Lee.
 
Senior Editor
Angela Leroux-Lindsey has a BS from Ithaca College and is   pursuing an MA in science studies and literary theory at NYU. She is the editor of The Adirondack Review, a reviewer for Kirkus, and writes for A&U Magazine. She lives in New York City.

Translations Editor
Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, translator, critic, and editor born of Sicilian and German parentage in Langenthal (Canton of Berne). He divides his time between Switzerland, the United States, and England, where he’s Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. For more information, please visit www.danielepantano.ch.

Associate Editor
Kit Frick received an MA in Higher Education from New York University in 2008 and a BA in English and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. She worked in book publishing and academic administration in New York City until 2009, when she moved upstate to pursue an MFA in Poetry at Syracuse University. Kit is a Poetry Editor for Salt Hill Journal and is currently writing and teaching in Syracuse. She is editor of the Sapling newsletter.

Associate Editor
Yvonne Garrett has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, a BA in English from Smith, and an MA in Humanities & Social Thought from NYU.  She is a reader for Barrow Street, the Fiction/Poetry Editor at NYU's Graduate Student Journal, ANAMESA and  the former Fiction Editor at LIT.  Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has been published in The Baltimore Review, The Raleigh Quarterly, Compass Rose, Thema, The Brooklyn Rail, Alternative Press, and Thrash Metal among others. She teaches writing at the Brooklyn Veteran's Center, lives in the East Village and hopes to one day return to the Pacific NW.

Associate Editor
Lily Ladewig received her BA in art history, French, and international letters & visual studies at Tufts University. After working for various magazines and art institutions in New York City, she recently completed an MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches undergraduate poetry workshops and seminars.

Associate Editor
Kent Leatham has an MFA in poetry from Emerson College and a BA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University. He served as chief editor of the literary journal Saxifrage and as a poetry reader for Redivider. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Zoland, Artifice, the Belleview Literary Review, the Battered Suitcase, and Oranges & Sardines. Kent grew up inMonterey, CA, and currently lives in Boston, MA.

Associate Editor
Ansley Moon received a BA in English from Georgia State University and a MA in Creative Writing from Trinity College Carmarthen. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the New School and an Associate Poetry Editor for The Furnace Review. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction