Bianca Stone has been named the 2024 Poet Laureate of the state of Vermont. Governor Phil Scott appointed Stone for a four year term to serve as the states ambassador for the art of poetry.
Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) winner of the 2023 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast.