Laurel Snyder

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Laurel Snyder (born 1974) is an American writer and blogger. Her books include Daphne and Jim: A choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse (Burnside Review Press), Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Soft Skull Press, 2006), Inside the Slidy Diner (Tricycle Press), and Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, or The Search for a Suitable Princess (Random House). She is an editor for the Utne award-winning online religion magazine Killing the Buddha and an occasional commentator for All Things Considered. 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. As of 2006, she lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband and son.