Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. Her newest book, A Little Called Pauline, is the first picture book adaptation of a poem from Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking 1914 book Tender Buttons. Featuring Stone's vibrant illustrations A Little Called Pauline invites young readers to experience Stein’s playful, mysterious language for the very fi rst time and to delight in a girl named Pauline who lives with her mom in a house on stilts by the sea. 

Stone is also the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours, and The Möbius Strip Club of Grief. She collaborated with Anne Carson on Antigonick, a book pairing Carson’s translation of Antigone with Stone’s illustrations and comics. Her poems and artwork have appeared in such magazines as the New Yorker, jubilat, and Poetry. She is Director of Programs at the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT.