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Gertrude Stein was a poet, novelist, playwright, and art collector born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. She grew up in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, where she lived with her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, until she died in 1946. Known for her experimental language play, Stein published her famous Tender Buttons in 1914, the collection of prose poems "A Little Called Pauline" comes from. She loved to host gatherings of writers at her home in Paris, including Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and Ezra Pound. She published one picture book in 1939 called The World is Round, illustrated by Clement Hurd.

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of Someone Else's Wedding Vows (Tin House & Octopus Books, 2014), Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, (Pleiades, 2016), and The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018). She collaborated with Anne Carson on Antigonick, a book pairing Carson's translation of Antigone with Stone's illustration and comics (New Directions, 2012). Her poems and artwork have appeared in such magazines as the New Yorker, jubilat and Poetry. She is Director of Programs at the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, Vermont.