Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist to The New Yorker since 2018, where his cartoons and comics appear regularly. He is the author of the graphic memoir This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America. He has received fellowships from MacDowell (2022) and La Napoule Art Foundation (2022). His work has also appeared in The LA Times, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Alta Online, among other places, and in the cartoon collections The Rejection Collection (2022) and Send Help! (2021). Before becoming a cartoonist, Mahdavian taught fifth grade, where he learned most of his jokes.