Tammy Lynne Stoner (October 26, 1968) is an American writer and artist. She created the first children's program for kids in gay families, Dottie's Magic Pockets. She is the publisher of Gertrude Press and GERTIE and is the author of Sugar Land. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her wife and three children. Personal life Stoner was born in Midland, Texas, and lived in El Paso, Texas, and Gulfport, Mississippi, before her family settled in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. After attending twelve years of Catholic school, she left for West Chester University, where she met the woman she would marry 20 years later. Stoner put herself through college at Temple University by working as an artists’ model, a paid medical experimentee, a waitress at a Greek diner, a house cleaner, a biscuit maker, and a book store manager. While in Philadelphia, she started Shrink-Wrap literary and art journal with her boyfriend, was published several times, and played in a band who practiced secretly at the Mummers Museum. After graduation, she moved from Philadelphia to Austin, Texas, where she worked as a gas station attendant and in print production. In 1995, Stoner moved to South Korea. She taught English in Busan for a year before resettling in the Tenderloin in San Francisco in 1996. The following year she moved to Southern California where she lived for ten years, working as a print production manager at Liberation Publications, parent company of The Advocate, Out, HIV+, and Alyson Books until she left to have a baby with her girlfriend. Her pregnancy led to the final break with her religious parents. In 2007, Stoner earned her M.F.A from Antioch University. That same year, Stoner split amicably from her girlfriend. They then moved to Portland, Oregon, with their son. In 2008, Stoner reunited with her college girlfriend, Karena Meehan, who was living in Paris. Meehan moved to Portland to be with Stoner. Three years later they were married, and had twin girls in 2014. Creative work In 2006, Stoner's son asked her why no families on kids' TV had two mommies, inspiring Stoner to write Dottie's Magic Pockets. Dottie was directed by her friend from Sony Pictures, Andrea Maxwell, and stars Jennifer Plante. It was released in 2007 to much media buzz and played at numerous gay and lesbian film festivals including London, Melbourne, Toronto, Outfest, and Frameline. Now, Dottie is in 100+ libraries in the United