Tammy Stoner

Who is Tammy Stoner?

Tammy Lynne Stoner is an American writer and artist. She is creator/writer of the children's program "Dottie's Magic Pockets", directed by Andrea Maxwell and starring Jennifer Plante. The show 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. In 2011, she became Gertrude's Fiction Editor.