Born in India and raised in Canada, Raksha Vasudevan is a writer and former aid worker. Her essays and reporting appear in Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Outside, VICE, Washington Post, The Threepenny Review, The Believer and more. Her work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, a Best of the Net award and listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays 2020 and 2021. An essay of hers is also included in "Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us," an anthology from Algonquin.
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