About Christine, Founder & Creative Director
Christine Sloan Stoddard is the founder of Quail Bell and was recognized as a "Top 20 Media Visionary in their 20s" by FOLIO: Magazine for the achievement. As a working author, artist, and film/theatre-maker, she creates everything from books to films to paintings to plays and other imaginings.
She is the author of several fiction, poetry, photography, and nonfiction books. These include Heaven is a Photograph, Naomi & The Reckoning, Belladonna Magic, Desert Fox by the Sea, Water for the Cactus Woman, Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia, and other titles. Her first children's title, The Book of Quails, illustrated by Sami Cronk, is now available. Christine's art and writing have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Bustle, Native Peoples Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, Marie Claire, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Bushwick Daily, Brooklyn Poets, and elsewhere.
Christine has shared her creations and talents at venues ranging from museums to theaters to galleries and beyond. Among them are the New York Transit Museum, the Broadway Comedy Club, Poetic Theater Productions, the New York City Poetry Festival, the Queens Museum, Theater for the New City, the Poe Museum, the Kennedy Center, etc. Previous residencies and fellowships include exhibitions and explorations at the Queens Botanical Garden, 1708 Gallery, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, and other fabulous sites. Currently, she is the artist-in-residence at HeartShare Human Services of New York. This year, she became a Visible Poetry Project filmmaker, a Table Work Press award-winning playwright, and co-editor of Her Plumage, the latest anthology from Quail Bell Magazine.
Christine holds an MFA in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York-CUNY. She studied at Grinnell College before graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with her undergraduate degrees. Prior to graduation, she earned a national emerging artist grant from the Puffin Foundation and was named one of Richmond, VA's "Top 40 Under 40" by Style Weekly. Born to a Salvadoran mother and New Yorker father in Virginia, Christine currently splits her time between Brooklyn and the Old Dominion. Her siblings are fellow artists Valentín Sánchez-Stoddard and Nina Stoddard. She is very lucky to have a husband who bakes such wonderful cakes.
Find out more about Christine here.
She is the author of several fiction, poetry, photography, and nonfiction books. These include Heaven is a Photograph, Naomi & The Reckoning, Belladonna Magic, Desert Fox by the Sea, Water for the Cactus Woman, Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia, and other titles. Her first children's title, The Book of Quails, illustrated by Sami Cronk, is now available. Christine's art and writing have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Bustle, Native Peoples Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, Marie Claire, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Bushwick Daily, Brooklyn Poets, and elsewhere.
Christine has shared her creations and talents at venues ranging from museums to theaters to galleries and beyond. Among them are the New York Transit Museum, the Broadway Comedy Club, Poetic Theater Productions, the New York City Poetry Festival, the Queens Museum, Theater for the New City, the Poe Museum, the Kennedy Center, etc. Previous residencies and fellowships include exhibitions and explorations at the Queens Botanical Garden, 1708 Gallery, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, and other fabulous sites. Currently, she is the artist-in-residence at HeartShare Human Services of New York. This year, she became a Visible Poetry Project filmmaker, a Table Work Press award-winning playwright, and co-editor of Her Plumage, the latest anthology from Quail Bell Magazine.
Christine holds an MFA in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York-CUNY. She studied at Grinnell College before graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with her undergraduate degrees. Prior to graduation, she earned a national emerging artist grant from the Puffin Foundation and was named one of Richmond, VA's "Top 40 Under 40" by Style Weekly. Born to a Salvadoran mother and New Yorker father in Virginia, Christine currently splits her time between Brooklyn and the Old Dominion. Her siblings are fellow artists Valentín Sánchez-Stoddard and Nina Stoddard. She is very lucky to have a husband who bakes such wonderful cakes.
Find out more about Christine here.
