Christine Sloan Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, director, actor, and artist. She is the author of the critically acclaimed play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares," as well as several books, including Water for the Cactus Woman and Heaven Is a Photograph, among others. Her short story collection, Desert Fox by the Sea, won the Four Chambers Press prize in fiction and was published by the now-defunct Hoot ‘n’ Waddle in Phoenix, Arizona in 2019. The director of several films, she made the arthouse title, Sirena’s Gallery, her first feature. Her words and images have appeared in The Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Ms. Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Marie Claire, Visible Poetry Project, Digital America, Yes! Magazine, and beyond. She has presented work at the Queens Botanical Garden, Theatre Row, the Elisabet Ney Museum, the Abrons Arts Center, the Broadway Comedy Club, and elsewhere. Stoddard was born to a Salvadoran mother and an American father in Arlington, Virginia and is the oldest of three siblings. A graduate of VCUarts and The City College of New York, she lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she runs Quail Bell Press & Productions. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Authors Guild, and the Actors' Equity Association.