Jon Stone is a poet, editor and small press publisher. His research concerns hybrid forms of poem computer game, as well as the various ways poetry and gaming intersect both digitally and non-digitally. As one half of Sidekick Books, he edits and produces collaborative, interactive anthologies and experiments with approaches to digital and cybertextual poetry using Twine, Game Maker and Twitterbots.
Jon won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012, was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2015 and won the Poetry London prize in 2014 and 2016. His collection, School of Forgery, (Salt, 2012), was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was reprinted in paperback in 2018.