“With a poet’s ear for metaphor, Stone offers a prismatic look at disaster striking people already in crisis.””
Photo by Hiromi Goto (2019)
Short Bio…
Anne Stone is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Vancouver. Stone’s latest novel is Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020).
The long version …
Anne Stone teaches creative writing and literature at Capilano University and is the author of four novels which, at core, are meditations on violence and its affects. Stone’s most recent novel, Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020), is a meditation on the gift that is memory and its hidden costs. Girl Minus X tells the story of Dany, a girl with an eidetic memory and a traumatic past who must navigate a world in which a slow creeping virus erodes memory. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called the novel “brilliant, breathless….”
Stone’s third novel, Delible (Insomniac Press, 2007), tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. This novel, chosen as one of thirty-five “Books of the Year” by the Globe & Mail, offers a glimpse into a sustained experience of uncertainty and so doing, examines how our identities exist in those traces we leave behind. In 2008, the French Consulate chose Anne Stone as one of ten writers to represent Vancouver and a translated excerpt of Delible appeared in an issue of MEET. Along with Emma Donoghue’s Room, Delible is the focus of one chapter in Lucia Lorenzi’s PhD dissertation, “This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Silence and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Canadian Literature and Drama” (PhD, English, UBC, 2016.)
Together with Amber Dean, Stone guest edited the special issue of the journal West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women—and, in 2009, together with Sachiko Murakami, guest edited “The New Vancouver,” a special issue of Matrix Magazine featuring the work of Vancouver writers.
Stone is just finishing up a collection of short stories that exists at the uneasy verge of realism. Troubling a simple approach to representations of violence and trauma, these stories cross boundaries between the literary, the speculative, the uncanny, and body horror, confounding separations between a singular identity and a plurality of selves.