Rachel Aviv

Rachel Aviv is an American staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has spent over a decade crafting deeply researched, empathetic narratives on mental illness, the justice system, and human identity. Her book "Strangers to Ourselves" explores the complex relationship between diagnosis, narrative, and the self through intimate portraits of people navigating psychiatric illness. Aviv's work is celebrated for its rare combination of intellectual rigor and profound humanity, earning her numerous prestigious awards. She studied literature at Yale University and brings a literary sensibility to her journalism that has established her as one of the most compelling nonfiction writers of her generation.