Author Rachel Snyder & Author and MFA Alum Laim Callanan Read From Their Work

Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:30 PM EDT
Research Hall, #163

Rachel Snyder’s first book Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade was published in 2007 by WW Norton, and her second book, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing was published in January, 2014 by Scribner. Snyder’s print work has also appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and others. She hosted the global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio. She currently teaches in the MFA program at American University. Liam Callanan is the author of The Cloud Atlas, All Saints, and Listen (forthcoming). His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Awl, Medium, Esquire, Slate, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcom- ing in Gulf Coast, the New Haven Review, Tinge, the Writers’ Chronicle, Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain, failbetter, Phoebe, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.