Rachel Aviv
Journalist and New Yorker staff writer
Rachel Aviv is an American journalist and New Yorker staff writer who often writes about psychiatry. Her first book is Strangers to Ourselves.
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Born 1982
About Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv was born in 1982 and became a New Yorker staff writer in 2013. Her magazine work has covered psychology, medical ethics, criminal justice, education and homelessness. She won the 2015 Scripps Howard Award for a story about police shootings in Albuquerque, and she has taught narrative medicine courses at Columbia University Medical Center and the City College of New York. Strangers to Ourselves, her first book, came out in 2022. It was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times also named it one of its 10 best books of 2022. Aviv received a Whiting Award in 2020.