Myrna Stone

Myrna Stone is the author of five full-length books of poems: Luz Bones (Etruscan, 2017), In the Present Tense, Portraits of My Father (Kelsay Books, White Violet Press, 2013); The Casanova Chronicles (Etruscan Press, 2010), which was a finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book of the Year Award in Poetry; How Else to Love the World (Browser Books Publishing, 2007); and The Art of Loss (Michigan State University Press, 2001).  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Boston Review and Quarterly West, and in nine anthologies, including Beloved On the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow Press, 2009) and Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (Chatto & Windus, Random House, London, 2001). Her poems have also been featured on both Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.

Stone is the recipient of three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry, a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, the 2017 New Letters Poetry Prize, the 2002 Dr. O. Marvin Lewis Poetry Award (now called the Dr. Sherwin W. Howard Poetry Award) from Weber—The Contemporary West, and the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year Award from the Ohio Poetry Association. She is a founding member of The Greenville Poets, a writers’ group that meets in Greenville, Ohio whose members have published fourteen full-length books of poetry since 1998.

Stone lives with her husband in a circa 1760 Rhode Island farmhouse they moved to Greenville in 1988.