Besides The Casanova Chronicles (Etruscan, 2010), Myrna Stone is the author of two previous books of poems, How Else to Love the World (Browser Books Publishing, 2007) and The Art of Loss (Michigan State University Press, 2001).  Her work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Boston Review, and Quarterly West, and in five 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 and Windus, 2003).  She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry, a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, the 2002 Dr. O. Marvin Lewis Poetry Award, and the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year Award.  She lives in Greenville, Ohio, with her husband, in an 18th-century house.  

Interact with Myrna!

Here are some podcast readings of Stone’s poems from WYSO.org:

“Call Up the Dead and They Come to You”

“Panegyric for Cows”

Here’s a 2010 interview of Myrna Stone from WYSO.org.

And click the link to connect to a 2008 interview from WYSO as well.