Laurel Snyder


Laurel Snyder is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded an Engle-Michener Postgraduate Fellowship in 2001. She lives in Atlanta and is the author of Up & Down the Scratchy Mountains OR the Search for a Suitable Princess, published by Random House, and the poetry collection The Myth of the Simple Machines. She is editor of a book of essays, Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes for Soft Skull Press, and her poetry chapbook, Daphne and Jim: A Choose-Your-Won Adventure Biography in Verse won the Burnside Review chapbook contest in 2005. A book for children, Inside the Slidy Diner was published in 2007 by Tricycle Press. Laurel edits the award-winning webzine, Killingthebuddha.com and blogs daily at JewishyIrishy.com.

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