Laurel Snyder is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Paul Engle fellow and she's got her own website. She has published non-fiction in BUST, Bitch and the Utne Reader, and her poetry is forthcoming in Post Road, Gulf Coast and the Beacon Street Review. An interview she conducted with her friend Thisbe Nissen appears in LGCR’s Issue No. One. Laurel's a LGCR editor at large.