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 is currenty working on her graduate degree at Brooklyn College. Some of her favorite authors include John Steinbeck, Lorrie Moore, Willa Cather, and Harper Lee.
Senior Editor
Sarah Crevelling holds a B.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in French from SUNY Binghamton. The first fiction editor of The Adirondack Review, Sarah joined the editorial staff of Black Lawrence Press at its inception. She is a graduate student at SUNY Buffalo.
Associate Editor
Kit Frick is currently an MFA student in Creative Writing/Poetry and instructor in the writing program at Syracuse University. Kit holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a MA in Higher Education from New York University. She has worked as a photo lab technician, a video store clerk, a dinner theater waitress, an ear piercer, a sluice operator, and a phone-a-thon caller. More recently, she has held positions in editorial book publishing and academic administration. A few of the poets Kit admires most include Marie Howe, Jane Kenyon, Nick Flynn, and Matthew Rohrer.
Associate Editor
Yvonne Garrett has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, a BA in English from Smith, and is currently working toward a Master's in Humanities & Social Thought at 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 is now completing her MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches undergraduate poetry workshops and seminars.