Hayley Stone is an author, editor, poet, and game writer. She is best known for her first novel, a speculative western, "Make Me No Grave," published in 2018. Currently, she is a lead writer on the mobile game "Simure Vikings." Stone's fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Fireside Fiction, and anthologies. Her poetry has appeared in Liminality and Eternal Haunted Summer. Stone received her B.A. in History from California State University.