States and Canada. From 2011-2014, Stoner was the fiction editor for Gertrude Journal, a queer literary and arts journal based in Portland, Oregon, and took over as publisher in 2017. Stoner also wrote several short films, including being on staff for Second Shot, starring Jill Bennett, who she had also collaborated with in the LA drag king troupe, the Sugar Daddy show (2000–2003), with Stoner as Frankie Roundfirmenhigh. Stoner's shorter literary writing has appeared in two dozen journals and anthologies. She's been nominated for a Million Writers Award and two Pushcarts. Stoner was an Artist-in-Resident with Sou'Wester and a writing fellow with the VCCA. In 2018, her first novel, Sugar Land, was released by Red Hen Press and went on to win an IPPY Award and be a finalist in the Forewords Book of the Year Award 2018., and short-listed for others, including the Crooks Corner Book Prize. Sugar Land has been called a "ravishing debut" in a starred Kirkus Review, "writing at its finest" by the New York Journal of Books, and "surprising and exhilarating" by Booklist. Bookpage wrote, "a novel of exploration, bravery and redemption, with keen insight into race, class, gender identity and social norms, Sugar Land is the story of a woman learning to come home to herself." She is now developing "Sugar Land" into a TV series, alongside other film projects. In 2019, Stoner appeared on an episode of Storytellers Telling Stories, reading an excerpt from Sugar Land, accompanied by Americana duo Pretty Gritty. See also List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon References External links Official website iHeart Radio interview, 2019 KBOO radio interview, 2019 Hasty Booklist interview, 2018 Entrophy 2017 Interview After Ellen 2010 Interview Portland Monthly 2008 Interview with Tammy Stoner 1968 births Living people Artists from Portland, Oregon Writers from Portland, Oregon American women children's writers American children's writers American lesbian writers LGBT people from Oregon People from Midland, Texas Writers from Texas West Chester University alumni Temple University alumni Antioch University alumni 21st-century American writers 21st-century American women writers