Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Louise Snyder
Snyder at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Occupation	Journalist
Genre	non-fiction; novel

Rachel Louise Snyder is an American journalist, writer, and professor. She has written about domestic violence and worked as a foreign correspondent for the public radio program Marketplace , ^[1] and also contributed to All Things Considered and This American Life . She is a professor in the Department of Literature at American University.

Personal life

Originally from Chicago, she has lived in London, Cambodia, and Washington, D.C. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Career

Her work has appeared in The New York Times , ^[5] The New Yorker , ^[6] The Washington Post , ^[7] and Slate . ^[8] A story she reported for This American Life ^[9] with Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig won an Overseas Press Award. ^[10]

Published books

• Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 2009. ISBN   9780393335422, OCLC   286487649 ^[11]
• What We've Lost Is Nothing. New York: Scribner, 2014. ISBN   9781476725178, OCLC   857568212 ^{[12] [13]}
• No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN   9781635570977, OCLC   1077589617 ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}
• Women We Buried, Women We Burned. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. ISBN   978-1-63557-912-3. ^{[18] [19]}

Activism

In 2025, Snyder signed a letter in support of a domestic abuse survivor April Rose Wilkens after Wilkens was denied freedom under the Oklahoma Survivors Act. ^[20]

References

1. "How many countries are in your jeans?". Marketplace. January 29, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
2. Roberts, Yvonne (2020-03-08). "Rachel Louise Snyder: 'Domestic abuse is as common as rain'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-10-09.
3. "Rachel Louise Snyder | Bio". Rls2023. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
4. Synder, Rachel Louise (5 July 2024). "Notes From a Formerly Unpromising Young Person". New York Times.
5. "RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER". query.nytimes.com. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
6. Snyder, Rachel Louise (2013-07-15). "A Raised Hand". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
7. Snyder, Rachel Louise (2017-11-16). "Perspective | Which domestic abusers will go on to commit murder? This one act offers a clue". The Washington Post . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
8. "Rachel Louise Snyder | Writers in Schools". wins.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
9. "Archive - This American Life". This American Life. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
10. "Rachel Louise Snyder Wins the 2020 Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
11. Freeman, Hadley (March 29, 2008). "Review: Fugitive Denim by Rachel Louise Snyder". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
12. See, Carolyn (January 23, 2014). "'What We've Lost Is Nothing,' by Rachel Louise Snyder". The Washington Post . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
13. "Review: 'What We've Lost is Nothing,' by Rachel Louise Snyder". Minneapolis Star Tribune. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
14. Bloom, Amy (June 10, 2019). "No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder review – domestic violence in America". The Guardian. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
15. Dvorak, Petula. "She wrote a book about domestic violence. Then its carnage shook her own life". The Washington Post.
16. "'No Visible Bruises': Unlearning Myths And Uncovering Solutions For Domestic Abuse". WAMU. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
17. Roth, Alisa (June 7, 2019). "An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
18. Szalai, Jennifer (May 24, 2023). "An Unsparing Memoir of Hardship Transmuted Into Possibility". The New York Times. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
19. "Rachel Louise Snyder on her coming-of-age memoir 'Women We Buried, Women We Burned'". NPR. May 27, 2023.
20. Coalition, OK Survivor Justice. "OK Survivor Justice Coalition". OK Survivor Justice Coalition. Retrieved 2025-10-09.

External links

• Faculty page at American University
• Appearances on C-SPAN