Curbstone Press was an American publishing company founded in 1975 in Willimantic, Connecticut by Judith Doyle and Alexander “Sandy” Taylor that specialized in fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, and poetry that promote human rights, social justice, and intercultural understanding.

Authors published by Curbstone include Luis Rodríguez, Martín Espada, Claribel Alegria, Salah Al Hamdani, Ana Castillo, Wayne Karlin, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sergio Ramírez, and Le Clézio.

[5] In 2001, Curbstone founded the Julia de Burgos Poetry Park at the south corner of Jackson Street and Terry Avenue near the Curbstone offices in honor of Puerto Rican poet and independence advocate Julia de Burgos García.

[6] In acquiring the press in 2010, Northwestern University Press cited Curbstone's "emphasis on creative literature that promotes human rights and intercultural understanding," which complemented Northwestern's longstanding commitments to writing from underrepresented communities and literature in translation.

[8] In October 2020, the town council of Willimantic voted to memorialize the publishing house by renaming the street where the press was located "Curbstone Way.