Christine Sloan Stoddard, M.F.A.

Christine Sloan Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, artist, and the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions. A lifelong storyteller, she is the author of Desert Fox by the Sea (Hoot 'n' Waddle), Belladonna Magic (Shanti Arts), Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil), Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia (The History Press), and other books. You can find her words and images in Ms. Magazine, Bustle, The Feminist Wire, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, Digital America, Native Peoples Magazine, and beyond. Her visual work has also appeared in the New York Transit Museum, the Queens Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, the Poe Museum, The UnSpace Gallery, and elsewhere. As a reader and performer, she has shared her words and the words of others at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Radio Free Brooklyn, FiveMyles Gallery, and elsewhere. She recently completed her term as the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, a 124-year-old settlement house in New York City. Previously, she was the artist-in-residence at Annmarie Sculpture Garden-Smithsonian affiliate, the Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch, Woodlawn-Pope Leighey House, and other organizations. ​Among her many honors, Christine has been named one of FOLIO:'s top media visionaries in their 20s for founding Quail Bell Magazine and Style Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" in Richmond, Virginia at age 22. She graduated from The City College of New York-CUNY and VCUarts as a student of distinction. Currently, she splits her time between New York City and her home state of Virginia.