Christine Stoddard is a 19-year-old artist and writer originally from the Washington, D.C. area. She is currently a first-year at Grinnell College in Iowa as an intended English major. As primarily a freelance writer, her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, both online and in print, including Washington Life Magazine, George Mason University’s So-to-Speak, the Smithsonian National Music Center’s In-Tune/The Gig, and Teen Ink. Please view her work at www.associatedcontent.com/christinestoddard and www.selfportrait.net/christinestoddard.com. You can also email her at chrissiestoddard@gmail.com.