J.B. Stone (he/they) (The Golden Girls Convention) is a Neurodivergent/Autistic teaching artist, spoken word poet, writer, playwright, and critic from Brooklyn, NY now residing in Buffalo, NY. He serves as the Founding EIC/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack and reads flash fiction for Split Lip Magazine. J.B.’s writing and performances have appeared or are forthcoming in Write About Now, The Buffalo News, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Citron Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Los Angeles Review, Rain Taxi, Flash Fiction Magazine, Flashback Fiction, Atlas and Alice, among other spaces. He’s featured, and competed in poetry slams across the U.S. & Canada, and qualified for a third year in a row, to represent Buffalo’s Pure Ink Poetry at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival, one of the largest regional poetry slams in North America. You can find more of J.B.’s work at jb-stone.com, and can follow their chaos on twitter @JB_StoneTruth or on Instagram @benjamin.jared. Having contributed to ART WNY’s production of When World’s Collide, an unique theatrical interpretation of A Christmas Carol, This will be J.B.’s debut play-written production
Inclusive Theater of WNY (ITOWNY) 