She is best known for her poetry collections, At Home in the Dark, Salvation Jane, Alive Alive O, Fool and her radio play Who's there?.
[1] She studied acting in Paris and worked as a performer before becoming a full-time poet.
Having taught at Goldsmiths, University of London and Bath Spa University, she now teaches for Poetry School UK.
[2] Stoddart's first collection of poetry, At Home in the Dark, was published in 2001[3] and won the 2002 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
[4] Her second collection, Salvation Jane, was published in 2009[5] and shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Award.