Rachel Louise Snyder
American journalist, writer, and academic
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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.
Rachel Louise Snyder | |
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Snyder at the 2023 Texas Book Festival | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Writing career | |
| Genres | non-fiction; novel |
Personal life
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]
