Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, professor and public radio commentator. Her first book, Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, was published in 2007. An excerpt of the book aired on This American Life and won an Overseas Press Club Award. Her second book was a novel entitled What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and was published 2014. Her third book, No Visible Bruises, was published in 2019. Her work has also appeared in the the New Yorker, New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Journal, Jane, Travel and Leisure, the New Republic, Redbook and Glamour. She hosted the global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. She is currently an assistant professor in the MFA creative writing program at American University.