About Hannah Stone

Hannah STone

Hannah Stone holds degrees in English Literature, Theology, and Creative Writing, from the universities of London, Leeds, and Leeds Trinity. Born and raised in London, she moved to Leeds in 1989, and has dovetailed a career in academia (as Reader in Eastern Christianity for Leeds Trinity University) with a portfolio of activities as a poet, editor and convenor of spoken word events. She currently teaches for the Open University.

Hannah has published four volumes of poetry, several collaborative volumes, and hundreds of individual poems in online and print journals and anthologies. She is editor of the literary journal Dream Catcher and poet-theologian in residence for the Leeds Church Institute. She convenes the poets-composers forum for the international Leeds Lieder festival, comperes Wordspace open mic, and hosts a monthly poetry discussion (Nowt but Verse) for the Leeds Library.

In February 2023 her poem ‘Second Sleep’ was one of Carol Rumens’ choices for ‘Poem of the Week’ in the online Guardian.

The concepts behind the Penthos Requiem came from her PhD research, published as Joy-Bearing Grief: Tears of Contrition in the writings of the Early Syrian and Byzantine Fathers (Brill, Leiden, 2004).

Hannah is a member of St Peter's Singers.