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the Snell sisters
Welcome to Scattered Light Publications. We are Janet and Cheryl Snell: sisters and daughters, collaborators and confidantes, artists with words and paint. We have eleven fiction, poetry, and art books between us, and recently won the Lopside Press Chapbook Competition for Prisoner's Dilemma, poetry and art inspired by game theory. Together we run Scattered Light Publications, a micro press.
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Cheryl Snell
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My Calendar

My CalendarMy Calendar (calendar)

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art from our mother, the artist Gladys Snell
pandoras box

pandoras boxpandoras box (calendar)

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A calendar with expressionistic oil paintings by Janet Snell
Portraits

PortraitsPortraits (book)

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portraits by expressionist painter Janet Snell
Collected works

Collected worksCollected works (book)

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A collection of drawings and paintings by Gladys E.Snell. With her portraits and landscapes, Mrs. Snell invites the viewer into the work; her love of nature and her belief that beauty can be found in the truth of representation lie at the heart of this book.
Prisoner's Dilemma

Prisoner's DilemmaPrisoner's Dilemma (book)

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Poetry and art by the Snell sisters, inspired by game theory and asking the question, "who will rat on whom?" Don Zirilli, who judged "Prisoner's Dilemma" the winning manuscript in the Lopside Press 2008 Chapbook Competition, says "Richard Lovelace defiantly proclaimed that 'stone walls do not a prison make' but the implication is that we make our own prisons and they can be anywhere: a car, a house, your own body, a sunlit street. Cheryl's poems are letters from prison, from all these prisons and more, but the book is not confining. Over and over again, we are given hints about how to make the most of our stay. I spent a good deal of time wondering just what the 'prisoner's dilemma' might be. I never found a definitive answer, but the book left me with a strong impression that the dilemma is whether or not to accept one's sentence. Do you become Houdini or King Rat? Typical of a poet, Cheryl wants to be both at once, and in these pages, it seems almost possible."
Multiverse

MultiverseMultiverse (book)

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Multiverse is a collection of poems inspired by science but grounded in the everyday, where a pitcher can strike out a seagull and newlyweds orbit each other like shepherd moons. The author is not afraid of the dark---she brings to light a disgruntled God, the death throes of a star, what occurs when a soul escapes. "I really like this chapbook from MiPO. Both Snells' (author and painter) works soar in this lovely book. It was interesting to watch the movement of fear between the poems: first in the scent of violets, then to "Fight or Flight" and the heart's leaping, and the "Risk" with its phobias. A nervous and wonderful collection of art fused with poetry." --Andrew Demcak