BIANCA STONE is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of over many books, including the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and The Near and Distant World (Tin House, 2026). She collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Carson’s Sophocles translation, Antigonick (New Directions, 2012), as well as illustrated a children’s book A Little Called Pauline (Penny Candy Books, 2020), using a Gertrude Stein poem. Her poetry and writings have appeared widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poets and Writers, The Nation and the Best American Poetry series. In 2013 she co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House, with her partner the poet, Ben Pease, in honor her grandmother, the late poet, Ruth Stone, Ruth Stone House, where she organizes events and retreats, teaches classes on poetry and poetic study, hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast and is editor-at-large for the poetry magazine, ITERANT. More at https://ruthstonehouse.org/