Bianca Stone

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Bianca Stone
OccupationPoet, cartoonist
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksSomeone Else's Wedding Vows
SpouseBen Pease
Website
poetrycomics.org

Bianca Stone is a Vermont based poet. [1] Her poems have appeared in literary magazines [2] and poetry collections, and her illustrations are a part of Anne Carson's project, Antigonick. [3]

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Early life and education

Stone graduated from Antioch College with a BFA in Language, Literature & Culture, and completed an MFA in poetry at New York University in 2009. [4] [5] [6] Stone's grandmother, the poet Ruth Stone, was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, [7] the National Book Award for Poetry [8] in 2002, and remains a major influence in Stone's life. [9]

Career

Stone's poems have been published in Best American Poetry 2011, Conduit, and Tin House, among others, and she is the author of the chapbooks I Want To Open The Mouth God Gave You, Beautiful Mutant [10] (Factory Hollow Press, 2012), and I Saw The Devil With His Needlework (Argos Books, 2012). Her illustrations have appeared in a collaboration with former teacher, Anne Carson, entitled Antigonick. [11] [12] This is both a printed book and a multimedia performance piece. [13]

Tin House Books published Stone's book, Someone Else's Wedding Vows, in March 2014. [14] [15] Tin House also published her collection The Möbius Strip of Grief in 2018 and What Is Otherwise Infinite in 2022. [16] [17]

She also edits a small press, Monk Books, with husband Ben Pease in Brooklyn, New York. Stone and Pease were married in August 2014. [18]

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