Vernon Snell is a writer, artist, and creator of Poetic Cinema—a literary form blending memoir, poetry, philosophy, satire, and cinematic storytelling. Raised in Washington Heights, New York, his work transforms lived experience, history, survival, and human behavior into literature meant to be seen as much as read. After rebuilding his life through writing, Snell created an expansive body of books exploring memory, identity, love, violence, culture, and the invisible forces that shape us.