AWP Offsite Reading

American University and DC’s collaborative literary community, The Inner Loop, cohost a celebratory reading featuring alumni of AU's MFA in Creative Writing Program. Enjoy bold new work, reconnect with fellow writers and readers, and spend an evening in great literary company. Hosted by bestselling author and journalist Rachel Louise Snyder, contributing writer to The New York Times and the acclaimed author of Fugitive Denim, What We’ve Lost Is Nothing, No Visible Bruises, and Women We Buried, Women We Burned. This event is open to all — but space is limited. Please register HERE.

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Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of , the novel and the memoir (May ’23), 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 on NPR, and she was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. 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.

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