Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Louise Snyder
Snyder at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Snyder at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
OccupationJournalist
Genrenon-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.
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