Christine Sloan Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American author, artist, and film/theatre professional who lives in Brooklyn. Her books include Desert Fox by the Sea, Belladonna Magic, Water for the Cactus Woman, and other titles. She co-edited Her Plumage, an anthology by Quail Bell Magazine, her literary journal, with Gretchen Gales. She is a 2020 Table Work Press playwriting competition winner and the artist-in-residence at HeartShare Human Services of New York. Her debut novelette, Naomi & The Reckoning, will be released from Finishing Line Press in June 2020.

In an interview, Lucille Clifton once said poetry “is the… human heart speaking.” That’s what captures Teri in art: poetry, film, or music—its heart. Teri