In addition to The Art of Loss, for which she was named 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year, Myrna Stone is the author of four other volumes of poetry: Luz Bones; In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father The Casanova Chronicles; and How Else to Love the World. She has twice been a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council grants in Poetry and a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, selected for nine anthologies, and has appeared in over fifty journals, including Poetry, Boulevard, The Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, River Styx, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review. She is a founding member of The Greenville Poets, and lives in Greenville, Ohio, in an eighteenth-century farmhouse she and her husband moved from Rhode Island.