Mallika Rao

Mallika Rao's profiles, essays, reportage, criticism and audio scripts have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Believer, and elsewhere, and have received honors from the Ambies, the Best American series, Longreads, and more. She is also a member of The New Yorker's editorial staff, in the Fiction department. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she was the Axinn fellow in Fiction and the Translations editor for the Washington Square Review.