J.B. Stone

J.B. Stone (he/they) is a neurodivergent/autistic slam poet, writer, performer, and literary critic from Brooklyn, NY now residing in Buffalo, NY. They are the author of A Place Between Expired Dreams And Renewed Nightmares (Ghost City Press 2018) and forthcoming INHUMAN ELEGIES (Ghost City Press 2020). He is the Editor-In-Chief/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack and a reader for Uncharted Magazine. His work has appeared in over 70 print and online publications including BlazeVOX, Peach Mag, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Occulum, Twist-in-Time Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Flashback Fiction, Noctua Review, Chicago Review of Books, Atticus Review, Star*Line, Frontier Poetry, Atlas and Alice, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and many more. His work has also appeared in a number of anthologies such as MANSION (dancing girl press 2019), These Poems Are Not What They Seem - A Tribute to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (apepublications 2020), Poets to Come: Walt Whitman’s Bicentennial (Local Gems Press 2019); Pact Press: Changing Tides (Pact Press-Regal House Press 2020) among many others as well. They’ve also competed and performed all over the U.S. including his recent time representing Pure Ink Poetry at the 2022 Southern Fried Poetry Festival in Louisville, KY.