Rachel Louise Snyder

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, 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.

Career Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Slate. A story she reported for This American Life with Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig won an Overseas Press Award.

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. , What We've Lost Is Nothing. New York: Scribner, 2014. , No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ,

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.