Degna Stone

Originally from the Midlands, Degna Stone is now based in Tyne and Wear. She is a co-founder and former Managing Editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine, a Contributing Editor at The Rialto, and a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet selector. She received a Northern Writers Award in 2015, holds an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, and is an associate artist with The Poetry Exchange. She is a fellow of The Complete Works III and received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2019. Her latest pamphlet Handling Stolen Goods is available from Peepal Tree Press. Ekow on Town Moor is her first published short story