Tammy Stoner
Tammy Lynne Stoner (born October 26, 1968 in Midland, Texas) is an American writer and artist. She created the first children's program for kids in gay families, "Dottie's Magic Pockets" and is the author of Spots in Sugar Land and Grenadine Kisses at Midnight. She lives between Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA with her wife and three kids.
"Dottie's Magic Pockets", directed by Andrea Maxwell and starring Jennifer Plante.[1] was released in 2007 and has played at numerous gay and lesbian film festivals including London, Melbourne image+nation, Toronto, Outfest, and Frameline. It is now available in 100+ libraries in the United States and Canada. In 2013, she was on the writing staff for "Second Shot", starring Jill Bennett.
From 1998-2003, Stoner worked as a print production manager at Liberation Publications, parent company of the Advocate, Out magazine, HIV+, and Alyson Books, where she also freelanced as an editor. Before that she was a gas station attendant, a warehouse palette lift operator, an artists’ model, a paid volunteer for medical experiments, a waitress at a Greek diner, a house cleaner, a biscuit maker, and a book store manager.
In 2007, she earned her MFA from Antioch University. Since 2009, Stoner has been the Vice President on the Board of Directors for Gertrude Journal, based in Portland, OR, a queer literary and arts journal. From 2011-2014, she was Gertrude's Fiction Editor.
Stoner's writing has appeared in StarF*cker, the Portland Review, Society, Literary Orphans, Unshod Quills, 10,000 Pounds of Black Ink, Folio, and PIf Magazine, among others. In 2011, she was nominated for a Million Writers Award. In 2012 she was nominated for a Million Writers Award and offered a fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminar in Kenya. Her work has been included in anthologies by Forest Avenue Press (2013) and New Rivers Press (2015).
Stoner began painting seriously in 2008 under the name Trixi. Pieces were selected for the 2011 and 2012 Siren Nation Group Shows. In 2012 "1908 Smokehouse" (acrylic with multi-media) was chosen for the cover of the New England Review. She is also a musician.
References
- ^ National Public Radio "Marketplace", September 26, 2007