Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of the nonfiction book "Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of
Global Trade" (WW Norton, 2007) and the novel "What We’ve Lost is Nothing" (Scribner, 2014). She is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and in 2014 was named an “outstanding new voice in fiction” by the Library Journal. For twenty years, her reportage has explored issues of violence, human rights, war and natural disaster, and she is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, Snyder’s print work has also appeared in The New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Journal, the New Republic, Redbook and Glamour. She hosted the nationally-syndicated global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. She is currently at work on her third book, "No Visible Bruises," an exploration of domestic violence in America today and she holds a joint professorship in creative writing and journalism at American University.