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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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