Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New York­er, where she writes about med­i­cine, edu­ca­tion, and crim­i­nal jus­tice, among oth­er sub­jects. In 2022, she won a Nation­al Mag­a­zine Award for Pro­file Writ­ing. A 2019 nation­al fel­low at New Amer­i­ca, she received a Whit­ing Cre­ative Non­fic­tion Grant to sup­port her work on this book. She lives in Brook­lyn, New York.