Will Stone (b. 1966) is a writer, poet and translator of French, Belgian and German literature, living in Suffolk. He holds a degree in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and has produced prose and poetry translations of the works of Stefan Zweig, Emile Verhaeren, Goerges Rodenbach, Maurice Maeterlinck, Rainer Maria Rilke and Joseph Roth, among others.

His debut poetry collection, Glaciation appeared with Salt Publishing in late 2007 and went on to win the prestigious international Glenn Dimplex Award for Poetry the following year. A second collection, Drawing in Ash , followed to critical acclaim in May 2011, also with Salt. Shearsman Books subsequently produced new editions of both these collections, followed by a third, The Sleepwalkers in 2016. Previous to these mainstream publications, Will’s poetry appeared in limited private press editions, containing his own original photographs.

He is a regular contributor to a range of literary journals and poetry magazines in the UK and internationally, where his articles, reviews, poetry and translations have appeared in the TLS, The London Magazine, Poetry Review, Edinburgh Review, PN Review, The White Review, The Shop, Gorse, Agenda, Decision (Germany), The Black Herald and The Wolf. His work has also featured in the Guardian , the Irish Times and the Independent.