Laurel Snyder



Laurel Snyder is an American poet and writer of children's books.

Life
Snyder was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and holds degrees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and children.

A poet and writer of children's books, including novels and picture books, she has also edited a number of literary journals, and is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.

Publications

 * Daphne and Jim: A choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse (Burnside Review Press, 2005)
 * The Myth of the Simple Machines (No Tell Books, 2007)
 * Inside the Slidy Diner (Tricycle Press, 2008)
 * Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, or The Search for a Suitable Princess (Random House, 2008)
 * Any Which Wall (Random House, 2009)
 * Penny Dreadful (Random House, 2010)
 * Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher (Tricycle, 2010)
 * Nosh, Schlep, Schluff: Babyiddish (Random House, 2011)
 * Bigger Than a Bread Box (Random House, 2011)
 * Good Night, laila tov (Random House, 2012)
 * The Longest Night: A Passover Story (Schwartz & Wade, 2013)
 * Seven Stories Up (forthcoming companion to Bigger Than a Bread Box)

Edited

 * Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Soft Skull Press, 2006)