Crystal Stone Author

Crystal Stone is an east coast girl with a Philly attitude. She is the author of four poetry collections Knock-Off Monarch (Dawn Valley 2018), All the Places I Wish I Died (CLASH 2021), Gym Bras (Really Serious Literature 2021), and Civic Duty, forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press (2022). Her work has previously appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Hopkins Review, Writers Resist, Salamander, Poetry Daily and many others. She is an MFA graduate from Iowa State University, where she gave a TEDx talk called "The Transformative Power of Poetry" in April 2018. You can find her at her website www.crystalbstone.com.