About Cheryl Snell
Cheryl Snell’s books include both poetry and fiction. Her first poetry collection, Flower Half Blown (Finishing Line Press, 2001) was nominated for the Ohioana Prize in Poetry. Her second, Epithalamion, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry collection Prisoner’s Dilemma (Lopside Press, 2006) won LP’s Chapbook Competition and was briefly an Amazon best seller. Her novel Shiva’s Arms (Writer’s Lair Books, 2010) received an honorable mention from the Dana Literary awards, and was a finalist for the Omaha Prize in fiction. The second novel in her Bombay Trilogy, Rescuing Ranu, was a finalist for the Serena MacDonald Kennedy Award, and named an Amazon best seller in mathematics and research. It held its place on the list for six years.
A seven-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Snell’s work has been published in five hundred literary journals, and collected in anthologies such as The Best of Tryst, The Centrifugal Eye, Sundress Best of the Net Anthology, anthologies from Carnegie Melon University Press and Sun Rising Poetry Press; Kicking the Shadow and Colors, anthologies from Gold Wake Press), Noun versus Verb Anthology, and Unlikely Stories. Snell’s poetry has been selected for Jane Duran’s Workshop in the Guardian, Jordan Davis’s Noted Poems, and she was named Discovery Poet by the venerable journal Botteghe Oscura.
Snell’s work has been featured on National Public Radio (Theme and Variations) and other venues. She served as Book Reviews Editor at Alsop Review, and ran a micro press with her sister, expressionist Janet Snell, called Scattered Light Library. Details about those books can be found on the sisters' blog Scattered Light. Cheryl also manages an author's blog about writing and all things Indian-- it's right here.