Christine Stoddard
Christine Sloan Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American author, artist, and filmmaker. She is the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions, including Quail Bell Magazine and the Badass Lady-Folk podcast. As an author, her titles include Heaven is a Photograph (CLASH Books), Naomi & The Reckoning (Finishing Line Press), Two Plays (Table Work Press), Belladonna Magic (Shanti Arts), Desert Fox by the Sea (Hoot 'n' Waddle), Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil), and Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia (The History Press), among others. Her chapbooks have been published by Dancing Girl Press, Semiperfect Press, AngelHousePress, Another New Calligraphy, and other publishers. You can find her work in Ms. Magazine, Bustle, The Feminist Wire, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, Digital America, Native Peoples Magazine, Amazon.com's Day One, and beyond. She has also written for stage, screen, and radio/podcasts. Her first feature film, which she wrote, directed, and starred in, is Sirena's Gallery. Stoddard is a graduate of VCUarts in Richmond, Virginia and The City College of New York-CUNY in Manhattan.
Works

Heaven is a Photograph
This girl is hungry for the weight of a camera in her hands, but that desire feels wicked. Is it because her father is a war photographer and photography has always been his domain? Or is it because she's yet to become a woman who chases what she wants? And who’s to say photography can’t be her domain, too? At least she knows this: Salvation lies in pixels. Heaven is a photograph. This collection of narrative poems and photographs tells the story of an art student and her journey of doubt, longing, and questioning. Join her as she finds her power behind the lens.
Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women's Writings From Quail Bell Magazine
Hello, New York: The Living And Dead
Naomi & The Reckoning
Two Plays: True Believer by Justin Hehir and Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares by Christine Sloan Stoddard
Force Fed
Things Mother Said To Me During Puberty
Desert Fox by the Sea
Belladonna Magic: Spells in the Form of Poetry & Photography
Water for the Cactus Woman
Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia
Awards and Recognition
- "Ms. Muse," Ms. Magazine
- "Poet of the Month," Brooklyn Poets
- Table Work Press National Playwriting Competition
- FOLIO:'s Top 20 Media Visionaries in their 20s
- Puffin Foundation's National Emerging Artist Grant
- 1st Place - Arts & Humanities, The City College of New York's Graduate Student Research Symposium
- Blanche Mason Starkweather Award, The City College of New York