Cheryl Snell

An author of ten books of fiction and poetry who has published over four hundred poems, stories, and book reviews online and in print, I'm a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. My work was selected by Dorianne Laux for a recent Sundress Best of the Net Anthology, and I won the Lopside Press competition for Prisoner's Dilemma, poetry inspired by game theory. I cook in the Indian idiom and play a mean classical piano.

My first novel, Shiva's Arms (Writers Lair Books, 2010) includes South Indian recipes. Dr. Matthew Biberman, an English professor at the University of Louisville, has this to say about that feature in his scholarly review of the book (http://www.redroom.com/blog/matthew-biberman/cheryl-snells-shivas-arms-novel-review):"Everything drives toward mixture, a fact highlighted by Ram when he observes that “we are all just chemistry labs.” This theme is made overt via the role food plays in this novel complete with recipes, a crowning touch. According to western cliché, cooking and food illustrate how each of us enjoys a unique and colorful heritage of goodness. True to its radical nature, Shiva’s Arms upends that idea and puts in place the notion that each of us is but an ingredient, a blend that makes up the bigger whole."