Myrna Stone is the author of five books of poetry, including In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father which was a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and The Casanova Chronicles which was a finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Southwest Review, Boulevard, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Nimrod, and River Styx, and in nine anthologies. She has received two Ohio Arts Council Grants, and the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. A founding member of The Greenville Poets, she lives in Greenville, Ohio, with her husband in an 18th century house they moved from Rhode Island.