Scattered Light

art and writing from the Snell sisters

Friday, August 28, 2009

"He puts out a cigarette on his hand" (After a Tom Waits lyric)

Cheryl and Janet Snell: Cheryl Snell's books include poetry and fiction, most recently the novel Bombay Trilogy. She has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. She has had work included in a Sundress Best of the Net Anthology, and other anthologies and journals. In addition to Cheryl's traditionally published titles, she and her sister Janet collaborated on chapbooks for Scattered Light Library. Janet Snell was a graduate of MICA and showed her work widely in venues such as The Drawing Center in NYC and Strathmore Hall in DC. She wrote FLYTRAP, a winner in the Cleveland University Poetry Center's competition, and won the Lopside Press Chapbook Prize for PRISONER'S DILEMMA, art and poetry on game theory. The sisters' book GEOMETRIES, was published by Moria Books, and Janet's collection of oil pastels and drawings, TWICE TOLD TALES, was published by Poet's Haven. Janet died in 2020.

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