Kristy Snedden, poet

Kristy began writing poetry in 2020. She studied with Phillip Schultz's Writers Studio for three years and currently studies privately with Margaret Greaves and Emily Leithauser. Her debut collection, That Broken Tooth, That Blue Tattoo, is coming in 2026 from Indolent Books. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in various national and international print and electronic journals and anthologies, most recently Contemporary Verse 2, storySouth, Door is a Jar, Snapdragon, 12 Mile Review, Muleskinner, and Gyroscope Review. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem, "Dementia," received an Honorable Mention from Writer's Digest 90th Annual Writing Competition in 2021 and she was named a 2023 Emerging Woman Poet by Small Orange Journal. Kristy is the founding editor of the on-line journal From Bone to Brain: An International Journal of Poetry, Prose, Art, and Healing. Kristy's poetry uses imagery and metaphor to combine the strange and the and the surrealistic with everyday sights and experiences. This juxtaposition intrugies readers and instills hope for a more magical world, while addressing the difficult issues that plague our regioin. Her goal is to suggest alternative ways of understanding the world through prompting feelings of awe unusual for those caught up in the day-to-day world we call life. Most importantly, her poems highlight the complexity of humans and the world and invite her readers to enter into, even embrace, that complexity. She believes deeply in the power of poetry to heal. In her free time, she loves hiking in the Appalachian Mountains near her home in Georgia or hanging out, listening to her husband and their dogs tell tall tales.