Laurie Stone is author of five books, most recently Everything is Personal, Notes on Now (Scuppernong Editions, 2020) and My Life as an Animal, Stories (Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Press, 2016). She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1, Waxwing, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Electric Lit, Fence, Open City, Anderbo, The Collagist, Your impossible Voice, New Letters, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, and Creative Nonfiction.

Praise

"Nothing is too small or too large for Laurie Stone’s laser vision, insights and humor..." — Gloria Jacobs

"There are big emotions, an attention to the senses, but she writes like a mystic: I was there, I saw and felt this, but I don’t really know what it means. And it doesn’t matter, I will stand in the wind.” —Christen Clifford

“Yes, she wants to entertain us—she is engaged in comedy—but it's comedy of a most serious kind, like all real comedy. It’s not schtick.
Laurie means every word and the words ring true.” —Alec Marsh

"Laurie Stone is the best writer I have encountered in quite a while.”
—John Lurie