Rachel Aviv (RJFWA ’10) received a 2024 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for her piece “Alice Munro’s Passive Voice” published in The New Yorker. The Polk Award is one of the highest honors in journalism. Aviv has also been named a finalist for the 2025 National Magazine Awards in the categories of Reporting and Feature Writing. She has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2013.
Rachel's first book, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us was published by FSG in 2022 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.