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Rachel Louise Snyder


Photo Credit: Don Rutledge

No Visible Bruises (Bloomsbury Press) May 7, 2019  

​Real Fiction Radio Broadcast: May 15, 2019, (Re-Air May 22)

Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.


Her print work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, and others. In 2003, she relocated from Chicago to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and became a contributor for the public radio shows “Marketplace” and “All Things Considered.” 


Currently, Snyder is an Associate Professor Creative Writing and Journalism at American University in Washington, DC.


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