Of Scottish-Cherokee ancestry, Stona Fitch lives with his family in Concord, Massachusetts. His novels have been published in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany. His second novel, Senseless, has been praised by critics for anticipating violent anti-globalization protests, online hostage-taking, and other political developments. Reviewers have called it one of the most disturbing novels ever written in English. Senseless is now an independent feature film from director Simon Hynd and Shoreline Entertainment.

In 2008, Stona founded the Concord Free Press, an experiment in publishing and community. He also works with Gaining Ground, non-profit farm that grows 25,000 pounds of organic produce each growing season and distributes it for free to Boston-area homeless shelters, food pantries, and meal programs.

Stona Fitch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961 and grew up in the midwest and south - living in Ohio, Georgia, and Kansas. While an undergraduate at Princeton, he studied fiction with Russell Banks and Joyce Carol Oates, and received the Creative Writing Program's Lannan Award for Fiction. He also served as chairman of The Daily Princetonian, and wrote for The Anchorage Daily News between his junior and senior years.

After graduation, Stona reported briefly for The Miami Herald before moving to Boston and joining its burgeoning alternative rock subculture. In 1984, he joined the seminal Boston-based pop group Scruffy The Cat, playing electric banjo, mandolin, accordion, and piano - as well as writing songs. He recorded two albums - High-Octane Revival (a NY Times top release of 1986) and the highly regarded Tiny Days (1987) - before leaving the band in 1987. During this time, he worked as a dishwasher and cook at Hoodoo Barbeque, a notorious punk-rock hang-out in Kenmore Square.