Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises, winner of a J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award; and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, LA Times Book Prizes, and Kirkus Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and elsewhere. A 2020-2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Snyder is a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism at American University and lives in Washington, DC.