Christine Sloan Stoddard is a writer, artist, performer, and the founder of Quail Bell Magazine. She has shared her films, paintings, poetry, performances, and more with Ms. Magazine, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Queens Museum, Bustle, FiveMyles Gallery, Cosmopolitan, the Poe Museum, and other organizations.

Her latest books are Belladonna Magic: Spells in the Form of Poetry & Photography (Shanti Arts) and Desert Fox by the Sea (Hoot 'n' Waddle). Her book, Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil), was recognized by the Poetry Foundation and won a prize from The City College of New York-CUNY.