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Rachel talks with long time friend and writer for children, Laurel Snyder. They talk about the Iowa Writers  Workshop, Laurel’s path from poet to children’s book author, money, the novice brain, labor, being “messy and extra but not totally batshit,” the relationship between poetry and picture books, the experimental nature of picture books, world building, getting things out rather than getting things down. 

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Extra Resources

Books by Laurel Snyder

The Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023)

Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) 

Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019)

Hungry Jim (Chronicle Books, 2019) 

My Jasper June (Walden Pond Press, 2019)

Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press, 2018) 

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Books, 2015)

Camp Wonderful Wild (Two Lions, 2013)

Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains (Yearling Books, 2010) 

Any Which Wall (Yearling Books, 2010) 

The Myth of the Simple Machines (No Tell Books, 2007)

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

Also Referenced

Marvin Bell

Gary Blankenburg (teacher at public high school in maryland)

W.D. Snodgrass

UTC University of Chattanooga

Catherine (Cathy) Wagner

Bradley Paul

Carl Sandburg

Theodore Roethke

Hamburg Inn No. 2

James (Jim) Galvin

Greg Brown’s Songs of Innocence and Experience

Tammy Wynette

Annals of Otorhinolaryngology

Jane Yolen

Edward Eager

Richard Nash, Softskull editor

Thisbe Nissen

Isaac Babel

Robert Creeley

SCBWI: The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Vanderpump Rules

Emily Hughes (illustrator for Charlie and Mouse)

Jason Isbell

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