Laurel Snyder discusses her collections of poetry, *The Myth of the Simple Machines* and *Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse*.
Laurel Snyder has edited a number of literary journals and is a commentator for NPR's *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. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband and children.