Stephen Pell

I am a retired business owner, full service photography studio, then a commercial photography and video production company my wife and I ran for a total of 27 years. I have a BS degree in communications with honors from the University of Tennessee. I have not entered many contests, but have won some of those I participated in. In the case of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, I believe it was in their 2016 Spring Writing Competition I won both first and second place in the fiction category.

I served in 1st Battalion 7th Marines in Vietnam, as an infantryman, or “grunt” in 1969. I listened to Armed Forces Radio from the top of a sandbag bunker in the bush as the Apollo astronaut took his first small step for man on the moon.

At this writing I have been married to the lovely and talented Betsy B. Pell for fifty three years. Among her numerous acts on my behalf, she nursed me through two and a half years of chemotherapy for lymphoma. Without her none of my creative efforts would have even happened. She truly is the sunshine in my life. We had two sons, and as of this writing, we still have one.

Currently, I write on occasion, have a hobby garden and enjoy the hummingbird flowerbed and waterfall my wife and I constructed in our back yard at our cabin in the country.

I can be reached at stephenrpell@gmail.com