Iva Dixit is a writer and essayist. Previously, she was an editor at The New York Times Magazine, and prior to that, an editorial staffer at The New Yorker. Her writing can be found in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vanity Fair and The Wall Street Journal. She was born in Patna, India, and has been working and writing in New York since 2013.