Rachel Snyder

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, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us and the memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned, a best book of the year from Kirkus and Audible, among others. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, the Washington Post and others. She has contributed to public radio’s This American Life and All Things Considered and, from 2003-2009 was a correspondent for Marketplace based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. No Visible Bruises was awarded the 2018 Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the 2020 Book Tube Prize, the 2020 New York Public Library’s Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Sidney Hillman Book Award for social justice. It won Best Book in Translation in Taiwan in 2021 and has been translated into Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Estonian and others. It received starred reviews from Kirkus, Book Riot and Publisher’s Weekly and was named one of the best books of 2019 by the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, the Library Journal, the Economist, and BookPage; the New York Times included it in their “Top Ten” books of 2019. No Visible Bruises was also a finalist for the Kirkus Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and the Silver Gavel Award. In 2021, she received a Guggenheim award, and her memoir, Women We Buried, Women We Burned, won the Independent Book Award in 2024. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University in the winter of 2025 and is currently working on a book about how women pay the price for men’s violence. She is a professor at American University with a joint appointment in literature and journalism, and she is a Contributing Writer to the Opinion section of the New York Times.